Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s3.t9.4

v2.c10.s3.t9.4

In the second chapter, when Bāṇa meets Siladitya, the latter had become the king of five regions of India. Bāṇa’s story starts from the ancestor of Siladitya and birth of Siladitya and extends into the most fantastic moment of his life - inheritance of the throne. The whole story utilises the death of Empress Yaśomatī, Emperor Prabhākaravarddhana, Emperor Grahavarman and Rājyavarddhana as plots and ends up conquering the whole world and rescuing Rājyaśrī (possessing the same meaning with the kingship). The description about Siladitya ends at the climax.. The story in chapter eight is echoed in the second chapter, in which Bāṇa told the stories of Harṣacarita. Bāṇa returns to the audiences and finishes his story in chapter eight.