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 (“prose-romance�). 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: Dhanapāla Tila...
4.11. Character description of Jvalanaprabha
The Vaimanika god Jvalanaprabha is also an effulgent superhuman being, a resident of the Lilavatara heaven. He seems to be a very wise and practical god who takes heed to the indications of his impending fall from the heaven and, setting aside his intense love for his beloved Priyangusundari, departs from the heaven with her man 178. Tilakamanjari, p.30(1ff.)./179.ibid., p.30(5ff.)./180.ibid., p.30 181. ibid., p.24(6ff.)./182.ibid., p.24(5ff.). /(15ff.). 183. ibid., p.25(5ff.). 185. ibid., pp.406-413. / 184. ibid.,p.406(5£f.) / 186. ibid., p.407(lff.).
930 necklace, and utilizes the rest of the duration of his godhood and the supernatural powers thereof for visiting all the pricipal holy places of the world, presents the necklace to King Meghavahana as whose son he is to be born in near future, instructs his friend god Sumali in the priciples of Jainism, and in the process accumulates profuse merit ensuring his birth in the best of human royal family and attainment of the emperorship of the Vidyadharas later on as also his union with his beloved who would also be reborn after 187 her merit in the heaven is exhausted. His pressing gift of the necklace to King meghavahana apparently looks somewhat unnatural, but there is nothing like that in it since he himself reveals that there is his own interest in this offer as the necklace might help him 188 in the next birth to effect the union with his beloved.