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...
26. The ceremony of Samavartana
Though there is no mention of this rite by this name, it is implied in the fact that Prince Harivahana lived with his teachers in the school till the age of six- 332 333 teen, at the end of which the king ceremoniously brought him back to his palace. This is in effect the Samavartana ceremony which celebrates the return of the student to his ancestral home after completion of his studies at the hermitage of his guru, and marks the completion of his education and his fitness to enter into and accept the responsibility of family life.