The love story between The Kinnari Princess Manohara & Prince Sudhana of the North Pancala Kingdom was depicted in one of the many reliefs of Borobudur.

Like any and every great love story, it was long, intricated and toiled with both human and divine interventions.

Manohara is a kinnari Princess living in Mount Kailash. She is the youngest of seven daughters of the kinnar King. One day, she traveled to the human realm, and got caught by a hunter. Manohara was captured by a hunter using a magical lasso, because the Kinnars are very powerful heavenly beings with voices as sweet as nectars. But later the hunter surrender Manohara over to Prince Sudhana. The two fell madly in love with each other and was married as soon as they returned to th eKingdom of North Pancala.

Later, when the prince was away in a battle for months, Manohara was flamed that she would bring bad luck to the city. She flew away back to the kinnara kingdom. However, she left a ring and a direction to the kinnara kingdom to a rishi, so that prince Sudhana could follow her.

Sudhana came back from the battle and followed her. It was a long and adventurous journey. He had to pass a lot of tests of strength, perseverance, and wit until he finally found Manohara, and lived happily ever after.



PS. This is the very short vesion, the actual story is very long, click here [link]