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.
Chapter 6 - Summary of the Tilakamanjari
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AS I reached its door, I marked a sort of golden sple-
ndour inside it. On trying to find out the source of鉁�
it, I spotted there a lovely lonely girl gathering
flowers. Having observed her for a long time, I turned
to her with a wish to ask her something. She, on her
part, began to tremble out of bashfulness on seeing me
standing in the doorway. With calm and unperturbed
face I asked her as to who she was, and assured her that
she need not have any apprehensions with regard to me
and introduced myself to her. She looked happy at that and
stood there with her eyes fixed to the ground. After a
while she started towards me and, having reached near
me, directed her sidelong glances at me. I understood
that she wanted me to let her go and retraced a step to
the side of the door. She gathered her skirts and pass-
ed through the door and went away. I wondered why she
did not show the courtesy of speaking even a word with
me. After she was gome, I remembered that she was the
same girl who was portrayed in the picture brought to
me by Gandharvaka in my palace at Ayodhya, and inferred
that she must be the same Tilakama帽jar墨 and the lake
must be the same one called Adrstap膩ra. but how was it
that she was alone here, while in the portrait she was
surrounded by numerous attendants ? But, then, everything
