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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wooden aeroplane and set under a tree, where I met
Citralekha who greeted me very heartily. Meanwhile
there arrived Patralekha, the crowned queen of the
Vidy膩dhara King Cakrasena. She asked Citralekh膩 as
to the owner of the aeroplane, for fetching which
Gandharvaka was commissioned to the Suvela mountain,
that nothing was known as to what happened to Gandha-
rvaka. She, then, introduced me to the queen as the
daughter of her (i.e. Citralekha)s) younger sister
Gandharvadatta. The queen embraced me heartily and
brought me here to this temple of Lord Jina. I decli-
ned to live among the kith and kin in such a situation
and decided to lead a life of an ascetic. Since then
I have been staying in this temple in the hope of
meeting the prince sometime. (Here ends the tale of
Malayasundari as narrated by Harivahana to Samaraketu.)
IRRESPONSIVE, THOUGH LOVE-LORN, TILAKAMANJARI
INVITES HARIVAHANA TO HER PALACE AT THE VIDY膧DHARA
CITY OF RATHANUPURACAKRAVALA (pp.345-386)
(Harivahana continues his narrative to Samaraketu.)
I (i.e. Harivahana) consoled her (i.e. Malayasundari)
saying that I knew everything about what had happened
to prince Samaraketu since the night-attack. She wished
khatenke
