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.
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Moá¸heraka Gaccha at Moá¸herÄ. Coincidentally both of them
reached there on the same day. Having known his plight
Siddhasenasuri recognized the genius in the boy, SÅ«rapÄla,
who could memorize a thousand verses a day and educated
him. The teacher, then, asked the parents for permission
to initiate their son as a regular disciple. They con-
sented on condition that the boy should be christened
after their parents. Siddhasenasūri initiated him and
named him 'Bhadrakirti' but in accordance with his pa-
rents' condition the boy was addressed as 'Bappabhatá¹i'.
Later on,at the invitation of prince AmarakumÄra,Bappa-
bhatti went to Kanoj but refused to occupy the
preceptor's chair till he qualified for it. He was pro-
moted to that position at a very early age on the eighth
day of the dark half of the month of Caitra in the year
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vati, the capital of the Gaudades'a which was then ruled
by King Dharma. It was due to the advice given, and the
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