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<p lang="sa">delivered and not only consoles the wife, but also brings

about a remission of the sentence passed against him.

The actual message occupies about twelve stanzas at the

end of the second part.
 
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<p lang="sa">In the Hamsa Sandesa, the hero of the poem is

Rama, who bewails his separation from Sita who was

then a prisoner at Ravana'&apos;s palace in Lanka. The

messenger bird is a Royal Swan, a member of the tribe

of birds that travel southwards from the Himalayan

regions before the approach of winter. Rama entrusts it

with the message, which closely resembles the message

in the model. But the poem does not say whether it was

delivered or not; the reader has to suppose that it was

delivered. The separated lovers are brought together

again, but it is by the prowess of the hero, and not by

the pity of a master. It is but right that it should be

so, as the hero is a Dhirodatta instead of Dhiralatita,

as in the case of the Yaksha. The Yaksha was a subject,

and his separation from his wife was a punishment in-

flicted on him by his king, who alone has the right to

remit it. But Rama's separation from his wife was due
&apos;s separation from his wife was due
to her abduction by a powerful enemy, and thus her re-

covery can only be by the use of superior force.
 
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<p lang="sa">bus But can we take it for granted that a Dhirodatta is

an improvement over a Dhiralalita, as the hero of a

Sandesa poem, which must necessarily be of the lyric type.

Many of the commentators on this poem are of opinion

that Venkatanatha has enhanced the beauty of the poem
 
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