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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is possible in this shoreless world-ocean where every-
thing is transitory and being are bound by the laws of
their actions. I determined to find her out and went in
her
search of her. But I could not trace/anywhere even after
roaming through bushes, trees, bowers, sandy shores,
caves and such other places of scenic beauty. At last
I returned to the same Cardamom bower, which, now looked
quite desolate in her absence. I rested there for the
night.
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HARIVAHANA CAME TO MEET MALAYASUNDAR莫(pp.253-259):路
Next morning I resumed the search ak and began to
trace the place where the row of footprints led. When I
had trodden some distance I saw in the sky a flock of
acquatic birds from which I inferred the existence of
some watery place. I took to that very direction and ha-
ppened to see the same palatial building the ruby-temple
where you saw me while coming out of the hermitage 禄
with Gandharvaka. Having duly saluted to the deities, as
I sat down on a pearl-seat near the door-slabs, I saw a
hermiteg忙rl.After finishing her worship, she approached
and greeted me for my arrival there, requested me to
follow her and led me to her residence in the same
three-storeyed nunery.She, then, went out with me for the
