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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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He is propably called 'Kavirāja' and 'Mālavacakravartin'
by the inscription writers of the time even in other
domains. He was also called 'Trilaka-nārāyaṇa-bhūmipāla'
by Vardhamana in his Gaṇaratna-mahodadhi? Prabhacandra
also testifies to this effect? He has been credited with
works in every branch of knowledge in every Sastra.Acco-
rding to Ajada, the commentator of the Sarasvatīkaṇṭhā-
bharaṇa, Bhoja wrote eighty-four works and all these were
given the names which were Bhoja's own titles
Birudas.
92 He is traditionally credited to have ¤¤¤gad been a
polymath who composed works on Grammar, Poetics, Astronomy,
Astrology, Logic, Medicine, Zoology, Architecture, Numis-
matics, Philosophy, Dream Psychology, Palmistry and etc.
90.GRM.III.5.pp.150-151.
91.PRC.18.13: अथ श्रीभोजराजस्� वाग्देवीकुलसभन� � कल�-
सिन्धु� [atha śrībhojarājasya vāgdevīkulasabhana� | kalā-
sindhuma
]
हासिन्धोर्विद्वद� [Իǰ屹]वल्ली महौकसः � १३ � [vallī mahaukasa� || 13 || ] etc.
92. इह हि शिष्� शिरोमण� निखि� निरवद्� विद्यानिर्माणा पूर्� प्रजापति�
प्रचण्� भुजदण्डपराक्रमार्जित चतुरशीति बिरु� प्रकाशित स्वकृतग्रन्धसमाज�
श्री भोजराज� शास्त्रारम्भ
[iha hi śiṣṭa śiromaṇi nikhila niravadya vidyānirmāṇ� pūrva prajāpati�
pracaṇḍa bhujadaṇḍaparākramārjita caturaśīti biruda prakāśita svakṛtagrandhasamāja�
śrī bhojarāja� śāstrārambha
]
93 -" etc.p.37. Des. Cat. of Mss.
in Jain Bhandars at Pattan. Vol.I. Palm leaves, GOS
LAXVI, as quoted by BSPR.
93.PRČ.17.75-78 : भोजव्याकरण� येतत� शब्दशास्त्� प्रवर्तत� ॥७५॥
अस� हि माझ्याधीशी विद्वच्चक्� शिरोमणिः � शब्दालङ्कारदैवज्�-
तर्क शास्त्राणि निर्� मे� ॥७६॥ चिकित्सा राजसिद्धान्त रस वा स्त्युदयान�
चा� अकशाकु� काध्यात्� स्वप्न सामुद्रिकाण्यप� ॥७७॥ ग्रन्थान्निर्मित-
व्याख्या� प्रश्न चूडामणी निहं � विवृति चा� सद्भावेऽर्धकाण्ड� मेघमालया � जय�
[bhojavyākaraṇa� yetat śabdaśāstra pravartate ||75||
asau hi mājhyādhīśī vidvaccakra śiromaṇi� | śabdālaṅkāradaivajña-
tarka śāstrāṇi nirma me� ||76|| cikitsā rājasiddhānta rasa vā styudayāni
cā� akaśākuna kādhyātma svapna sāmudrikāṇyapi ||77|| granthānnirmita-
vyākhyāna praśna cūḍāmaṇ� niha� | vivṛti cāya sadbhāve'rdhakāṇḍa� meghamālayā || jayā
]

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