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...
24. The ceremony of Upanayana
With the usual 'Upanayana' ceremony the boy is initiated into the study of the Vedas and is really www ww 328. Tilakamanjari, p. 78 (10-12 ) akhilavedokta vidhivida vedha se vagha rana svayam purodhasa nirvarttitannaprasanadi sakalasamskarasya --- | 327. ibid.,p.78(12ff.). 328. I am indebted to my friend Prof.Hiralal Pandya of Visnagar for this information.
463 accepted as a member of the group and of the spiritual life of the community to which his forefathers belong.329 Dhanapala has adopted this ceremony in a different manner. The education of Harivahana started in his sixth year when on an auspicious day, the king performed all the daily routines of his worship, annointed the prince with sandal paste and dressed him up with clean fine silk garments, pearl necklace and floral crest, put an auspicious Tilaka on the prince's forehead with Gorocana, and took him to the school where, in the holy presence of the image of the goddess Sarasvati, he was handed over to his teachers. The education started with the teaching of the alphabet and culminated in the knowledge of all arts 330 and sciences.