Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala (study)
by Shri N. M. Kansara | 1970 | 228,453 words
This is an English study of the Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala, a Sanskrit poem written in the 11th century. Technically, the Tilaka-manjari is classified as a Gadyakavya (鈥減rose-romance鈥�). The author, Dhanapala was a court poet to the Paramara king Munja, who ruled the Kingdom of Malwa in ancient west-central India. Alternative titles: Dhanap膩la Tila...
4. Motifs (10): portrait of a young girl
The portrait of Tilakamanjari made by Gandharvaka gives an opportunity to bring out the superb aesthetic 37 power of poetic appreciation of Harivahana, who naturally falls in love with the girl in the portrait. The discussion about its merits or otherwise reveals the peculiarities 38 of the nature of the girl. Again it serves as a means of identification to Harivahana after he happens to see her for the first time in the Cardamom bower in the Vidyadhara region of Vaitadhyan forest on the bank of Adrstapara lake. It is evidently a part of the tender strategy by Citralekha to whom Patralekha had merely suggested to get the portraits of various human princes and show them to Tilakamanjari, and find out the prospective lover destined to be her husband. 39.