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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nine years in age, came to know about it all and con-
soled him that she knew by heart the whole story which
121 she would dictate again to him. Dr. M.Krishnamachariar
follows Merutunga in holding that the name of his
daughter was Tilakama帽jar墨 and that the poet gave the
name 122 pr. D.C.
title of his work after his daughter's name
Ganguly says that we have no evidence to corroborate篓
the story of Bhoja having burnt the original first
123 manuscript of the TM. But we do have some lurking
124 evidence in a couple of loose ends in the story of
the TM which would support the Jain tradition which
holds that the original work was about twelve thousand
gramthas in extent, but that the portion of about three
thousand gra峁僼has in extent, which was unfortunately not
read by the poet to his daughter, could not be restored.
121.PRC.17.218ff.: 啶溹さ啶灌ぞ啶え 啶ぞ啶侧く啶� 啶︵啶灌た啶む啶班ぞ啶�
啷ムエ啷оさ啶� 啶呧啷嵿し啶
啶曕さ啷� 啶ぞ啶� 啶︵う啷嵿う啷� ---|| 啷оウ啷�
啶灌啶︵く啶� 啶啶� 啶曕た啶� 啶膏か啶侧ぞ 啶む 啶啶掂 啶曕啶оぞ啶� 啷� 啶班す啶多ぞ
啶曕ぞ啶傕ぇ啶� 啶� 啶膏啶侧ぞ 啶む啶� 啶多啶多啶班啶啶洁い啷嵿ぐ 啶膏啶侧ぞ啶啶ぞ啶む--||啷ㄠエ||
[javah膩yana b膩lay膩 duhitr膩峁�
||21v膩 ak峁ya峁�
kav墨 p膩峁環a dadde ---|| 10||
h峁沝aya峁� me岣峚 kina saphal膩 te buve ka峁僤h膩ra || raha艣膩
k膩峁僤h膩 ca sakal膩 tena 艣u艣r奴ye'tra sul膩muy膩t峁�--||22||
] There is
nothing impossible about it.L have myself seen a
young girl of seven years whox could recite the
whole of the Bhagavadgit膩 by heart and she had gave
a demonstration of the recital at the Deccan College
Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Poona, in the
year 1959.
122.HCSL.p.475.
123.HPD.p.284.
124.See infra Chap. VIII ; also cf.TMS.Intro.pp.25ff.
