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Essay name: Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala (study)

Author: Shri N. M. Kansara
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit

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.

Chapter 1 - The Author (biography of Dhanapala)

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35 (of 59)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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the author of the Tippanaka on the TM. This latter one,
who belonged to the Pūrṇatalla Gaccha, flourished in the
twelfth century A.D.and is removed from Dhanapāla by
about a century or so. The PRC elsewhere describes in
detail the incidents at Aṇahillapura where Dhanapāla
went personally to invite and fetch the scholarly saint
107 with full honours.
When Dhanapāla arrived at the monastery of the
saint, who was engrossed in meditation, he found a
fresh student-disciple whom he asked to explain a verse
full of alliterative paronomasia, which purported to
108.
inform his preceptor about his arrival. 'The disciple
elucidated the verse without any effort. Not only that,
he brought out the cryptic Jainistic significance about
109 the nature of the Tirthaṃkaras and the individual souls.
Dhanapāla was highly astonished, and fully satisfied,at
the marvellous scholarship of his preceptor.With due
permission of the Chief-Preceptor and the Jain society
of Anahillapura, and accompanied by the ministers of
107.PRC.16.21-60. This sixteenth chapter of the PRC is
entitled 'Vādivetāla-sāntisūri-caritam'.
108.ibia. vs.28 : खचरागमने खबरो � खचरेणातिपत्रधर� �
[khacarāgamane khabaro � khacareṇātipatradhara� |
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खंचरचर� खचरचरत� खचरमुख� [khaṃcaracara� khacaracarati khacaramukhi] ! खचरं पश्य � १८ �
[khacara� paśya || 18 ||
]
109.1b1d.vs.30: 'उपन्या� प्रतिष्ठायास्तत्� सर्वजजजियो� � ऊर्ज� स्थि
गर्जिएर्जन्यध्वनिन� विद्येऽथ सः॥३�

[upanyāsa pratiṣṭhāyāstatra sarvajajajiyo� | ūrjā sthi
garjierjanyadhvaninā vidye'tha saḥ||3||
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