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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phant seems to be possessed by some demon or goblin who w
wisjes to carry me away under duress and overpower me in
order to avenge some offence which I might have committed
to him in my previous birth. It has come a long way, and
before it carries me too far, I must restrain him. As I
took out my dagger, the elephant roared terribly and fell
headlong along with me into the waters of the Ad峁涐梗峁璦p膩ra
lake. I, for myself, swam out of the waters and cleansed
my body, and garments, of the mud sprinkled by the ele-
phant, whom I did not see again.
HARIVAHANA MEETS WITH A GIRL (TILAKAMANJARI)
WHO DUDS NOT GIVE HIM ANY RESPONSE (pp.244-253)
Looking at the strange surroundings, I began to
reflect on the transitoriness of the happiness
and misery in the world. I wondered why people could
not, yet, wean their minds away from such worldly things.
Having lost all hopes og returning home, I set out in
one direction to find out if there was some village
nearby. having gone some distance, I found a row of
foot-prints,leading in all directions, on the sandy sho-
re of the lake. Among them I marked a pair of most deli-
cate ones marked with auspicious marks. I began to trace
it and followed them upto a bower of Cardamom creepers.
