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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" Here in this transitory existence the soul roams
from one form of birth to another one, in accordance
with his past deeds. There is nothing strange here.
Even a god is born as a worm in his next birth, while
a bird of one birth passes to the birth of a human
being. A king now, becomes a servant next. An unhappy
one is transformed as a happy one. Providence Almighty
makes and breaks everything in the fashion of an expert.
potter. As to Tilakama帽jar墨 I would tell you a strange
story:
" There was a god named Jvalanaprabha residing in
the Lilavatansa Vim膩na in the heaven. Marking that the
end of his long tenure of crores of years in the heaven
was fast approaching, he left the heaven, unnoticed by
anybody, in order to earn some merit for future births.
His celestial consort Priyangusundari was woebegone
and came to Jambu-dv墨p膩 to know his whereabouts. There
she met her friend Priya峁僾ad膩 who also was deserted by
her lover Sumali a celestial friend of Jvalanaprabha
and who had also come there in search of her lover.
Both of them went to the Puskar膩vati Vijaya, to the
east of Meru mountain, in order to see the omniscient
sage named Jayantasvamin. The sage forecast that they
would meet their lovers respectively on Mount Eka艣riga
"
