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...
21. The ceremony of Namakarana
In keeping with the Brahmanical tradition, this ceremony was performed on the tenth day from the birth of 322 a male child. All the deities in all the temples of the 320. Tilakamanjari, p.263(12-17). 321. ibid.,p.78(1). 322. ibid. samajate ca dasame'hni ...1
461 city were offered special worship, relatives and friends were honoured, elders were propitiated, thousands of cows with calves were bestowed to unsolixitous, though Learned, Brhamins and the child was named in keeping with the family tradition or with reference to the relavant memorable events like the dreams at the time of conception. Thus the name 'Harivahana' was coined partly in rememrance of the dream of Madiravati, who saw therein the elephant (vahana) of Indra (Hari), and partly with reference to a part, viz., 'vahana', of the name of the prince's father King Meghavahana. 323 similarly, the name' Samaraketu' was also in resemblance to that of his father Candraketu. In the case of a female-child the ceremony seems to 324. have been performed after the tenth day, possibly on the 325 twelfth day.