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 (27): Cetanokti (personification)
Though Sanskrit rhetoricians have not noticed a figure of speech like this, we do find instances of this mode of expression, as in : kimva svandati sailakandara bhuvi minnam karunam- retaddarpakara Tlakolakapilasyamam triyamatamah | (238,11ff.), where the personification is effected on the strength of Upama and faint Samasokti. In another place the martial victory is personified in the course of critical much moments of a battle wherein the 鈻� victory fluctuates between two equally skillful and brave warriors, as in : aviralasarasaratrasita hamsiva meghagame palvalamanavalokitaya visam sthula sainyapativadah sthalamamucadrajalaksmih | u啶緉tahrdaya ca pana bahusirasi pana dhanusi, daksanam krpamnadharambhasi, ganamatapatre, panam palikadhvajesu, panam camaresvakrta sthitim (90,23卤1.); here also the personification is based on Upama.