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 (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.
Chapter 1 - The Author (biography of Dhanapala)
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stands the Prabandha-cint膩ma峁噄 (PC) of Merutunga (V.Sam.
1361 i.e.1305 A.D.), who might have been a junior con-
temporary of Prabh膩candrasuri, the timelag between the
composition of their works being only a score of years.
Merutunga seems to have inherited the information from
hearsay and a different tradition 10 Moreover, his infor-
mation is sketchy and at time incorrect, and perhaps
biassed to some extent in favour of his own monk-order.
(gaccha). The same is more or less the case with the
rest of the sources listed above, as almost all of them
seem to have adopted, with some modifications, the tra-
dition preserved in the PC. Again there is a tendency in
most of these latter accounts to father the credit, for
converting to Jainism such a Brahmin scholar like Dhana-
p膩la, on a teacher of their own 'G脴RE
'GERE 'gaccha', and
another tendency to depict that both Dhanap膩la and the
heroes and the heroines of his prose-romance got initi-
ated (dik峁ta) to the monk order and attained to 'Nirv膩峁嘺'
consequent to their having forsaken the mistaken creeds
(mithy膩tva) and taking to the right path, viz, the Jainism.
9.PC($JGm)鈥.125 : 啶む啶班啶啶︵ざ啶� 啶膏啶掂が啷嵿う啶多い啷囙し啷� 啶氞啶曕し啶粪啶熰啶ぇ啶苦啷囙し啷� 啶曕ぎ啶む 啶椸ぐ啷嵿え啶粪 啷�
啶掂啶多ぞ啶栢啶距じ 啶膏啶� 啶氞 啶啶班啶｀た啶ぞ啶ぞ啶� 啶椸啶班え啷嵿ぅ 啶膏ぎ啶距お啷嵿い啶� 啶多ぞ啶椸た啶侧
啶た啶侧啶洁く啶 啷�
[truyoda艣a峁� svabda艣ate峁 caika峁峁ａ弓yadhike峁 kamato garna峁 |
vai艣膩khag膩sa sya ca啷� p奴r峁噄m膩y膩峁� grantha sam膩pti 艣膩gilo
milo'yam ||
] 10.PC(S).vss.31,33. p.263.
