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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Smt. HANSA viv. SENA LIGPARY 銇点仏銇勩伨銇欍�� 151 missionary activity and spiritual inspiration
Buddhists' monesteries of yore.
Both the epigraphic and literary records.
BARGOA
to the fact that Buddhism had quite a large numbers of
followers also in the parts of India other than Bengal
and Bihar. N膩land膩 and Vikramasila were great centres
of Buddhism. To all such Mahavih膩ras or universities,
richly endowed with royal grants, flocked learners from
all quarters of India and Abroad to receive instructions
at the feet of most profound savants of the day. Another
vigorous centre of Buddhism was Kashmir from where
number of missionaries went to Tibet and Central Asia
to spread the doctrine. Both the Kashmirian schools of
Saivism, viz., Spanda and Pratyabhijn膩 that came into
being in the ninth and the tenth centuries A.D., had
been more or less influenced by Buddhism. S膩ran膩tha also
was a living centre of Buddhism at this time.
126 Gujarat was a flourishing centre of Jainism through-
out this per period. The Jain influence at the court
of the C膩lukyas of Gujarat may be traced from the time
of the very founder of the dynasty. Teachers like Saha-
srakirti are described as "the sinless teachers whose
125.SE.pp.414 ff.
126.ibid.pp.427 ff.
