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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dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the
endeavour to make it poetic. The habit of plastering
a plain exposition or a simple narration with empty
poetical beauties is very easy to acquire and very hard
33 " The matter is quite different in the
to unlearn....
case of the Sanskrit fiction which is definitely meant
to be listened to, rather than to be read in an easy
chair. It is for this reason that it is classed as a
'艢ravya-k膩vya'. The peculiar social and cultural situa-
tion contributed towards the development of this form of
Sanskrit K膩vya. The paucity of the Mss. and the special
naked method and style of close writing in the Mss. pre-
cluded anybody but only a few very patient, eager and
learned scholars to decipher a Ms.. And that is why all
the types of Sravya-k膩vyas ranging from the epic to the
Subh膩sitas were supposed to be loudly recited in the
packed royal assemblies or in an assemblage of laity in
a village temple or an open public place in the case of
the epic-histories and the Pur膩峁嘺s. The Sanskrit word
'p膩峁環a' derived from the root 'path' primarily means
:
3 to recite 鲁 And not merely'to read'. Not only that, these
recitations of the 'k膩vya' or the Itih膩sas and the Pur膩-
峁嘺s were often interspersed with occasional comments or
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