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...
6.2. Alankaras (16): Samasokti (suggestive brevity)
A few specimens of Samasokti, or suggestive speech of brevity are notable for their beauty. Thus, in the description of the early morning the receding rays of the Moon are depicted in the following words : udhajjadya iva pragetanamaru tsamsargatascandramah padanena digantata . patalatah samkocayatyayatan 238,5拢拢), where the predominant Samasokti suggests the picture of a person contracting his limbs out of cold in the early morning;
867 the fugure of speech is supported by Rupaka ans Slega. The Vaitadhya mountain is described as : visalakataka vastabdhabhutalam pratipadamiva himavatah (239,11), where another picture of an enemy king ready with his army emerges from the pun on the morda 'Kataka ' (= ridge; army ) . Similarly, a picture of an old man emerges from the description of the setting Sun, as in : 00 samanasaralara vikara sira samtatih svasthanacalita jisamuha vivanasimkucita- cchavih prapya parinatiprakarnamastonmukho babhuva divasah |