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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a scholarly debate. Bappabhatti converted VÄkpatirÄja to
55 Jainism when the later was in his old age and met him at
the temple of VarÄhaswÄmin in MathurÄ. PrabhÄcandra fur-
ther informs us that it was for the sake of students
and apprentice-poets that Bappabhatti composed his
famous epic entitled 'TÄrÄgaṇa', which was but one of
his fifty-two works in all 56 True to his religious faith
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he undertook a fast unto death and expired on the eighth
day of the bright half of the month of ÅšrÄvaṇa in the
year V.Sam.895 (i.e. 839 A.D.) at the age of ninety-five
years, during which he was honoured with the titles like
*VÄdikuñjarakesari', "BrahmacÄri','Gajavara','RÄjapÅ«jita'
and so on.
(16) YÄ€YÄ€VARA :- Popularly known as Rajasekhara,
YayÄvara is praised by DhanapÄla for his diction which
is marked by the beautiful superimposition and mature
lucidity?? DhanapÄla has not specified whether he refers
to the famous KÄvyamÄ«mÄmsÄ
supposed to be a fragment
58 of a bigger tretise called 'Kavi-rahasya' or to the
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