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.
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fame could not have resisted a similar temptation to
such a fame for himself. It is significant that Dhanap膩la
praises Bhoja elaborately for his personal handsomeness
and valour. As to his scholarship, however, he briefly
calls him 'acquainted with the entire literature' (ni岣�-
se峁v膩nmayavid) and nothing more. Bhoja's craving for
literary fame must have been whetted by Dhanap膩la's work,
which far surpassed the former's Camp奴-r膩m膩ya峁嘺 indire-
ctly criticized by the latter in the introductory verses
of the TM and ultimately resulted in a direct request
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by the emperor to his favourite court-poet, who refused
to oblige. And taking recourse to the rather justifiable
grounds in view of his own considerable talents, Bhoja
seems to have seized the opportunity of incidantally
immortalizing himself and his capital Dh膩r膩 rather
with a vengeance, while principally writing a work in
illustrating his main thesis of R膩ga-s峁沶g膩ra in his
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Srigaraprak膩sa. This is a unique instance of religious
difference of opinion depriving us another historical
Sanskrit prose-romance
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an 'Akhy膩yika' which could have
successfully contended with that of Bana's Harsacaritam.
And-Bhoja amply deserved such an honour in view of his
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b 116.TM(N).Intro.vs.27.
117. (P.T.0.)
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