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 4 - Predecessors of Dhanapala
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yogic practices he once concentrated his vital airs at
the forehead and exhibited a fake death. He breathed his
29 last by fasting for thirty-two days at Satru帽jaya. Muni
Kaly膩峁嘺vijaya places him in the third century A.D. But
there is no evidence about the contemporaneity of K峁涐梗峁嘺-
30.
r膩ja, 膧ryakhapata and others. It is to the purifying
aspect of the Tarangavati-kath膩 of P膩dalipta that Dha-
nap膩la pays compliment. Perhaps it was due only to the
metrical compulsion that Dhanapala paid the compliment
to the work only while not mentioning the name of the
author.
(7) J莫VADEVAS弄RI:
Formerly called Mahidhara, he
was the son of a merchant named Dhrmadeva of V膩ya岣峚
community. His mother's name was silavati. He was ini-
tiated by Jinadattas奴ri in the Jain monk order, wherein
he was rechristened 'Rasilas奴ri'. His brother Mahip膩la
was initiated into the Digambara order. At their mother's
insistence to determine the superiority between the
rival factions of Jainism, Mahipala went over to the
sect of Rasilas奴ri who appointed him as a successor and
31 renamed him 'J膩vadevas奴ri'. He composed the Vivekavil膩sa
and the Sakunasastra. According to Muni Kaly膩峁嘺vijaya, he
29.PRC.p.27 ff.
30.PRC(KV).Intro.p.35
31.ibid.pp.41-44.
