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...
4.10. Character description of Vidyadhara Muni (alias Maharsi)
The Vidyadhara Muni is a superhuman saint while travelling in air over the royal palace of King Meghavahana, happens to mark that the king and his queen were suffering from some inner anguish, takes pity on them 177 and descends on to the terrace of the palace. Having come to know that the royal couple was suffering from want of a / 174. ibid., pp.266-268. / 176. ibid., p.274(lff.). 173. Tilakamanjari, pp.270-271. 175. ibid., p.274(18ff.). 177. ibid.,p.25(14ff.); 27(4ff.).
929 male child, he employs his divine vision and consoles them -178 about the end of their miseries in near future. He is very practical, considerate and very much helpful in that he asks the king to give up the idea of retiring to a forest for propitiating some deity and instead advises him to worship his family deity, the Goddess Sri. 179 Not only that, he imparts the mystic Aparajita Vidya too to that 180 end. 181 His bodily complexion is dark and he seems to we- 182. ar the sacred thread. "His religious conduct, authority in matters religious, mercifulness of nature and instruction about the path of emancipation are all exemplary. 183 184 This same Vidyadhara Muni, on attaining omniscience, becomes Maharsi and, in, answer to the question of Virasena, reveals the past births of Harivahana, Tilakamanjari, Samaraketu and Malayasundari.