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 7 - The Katha form of literature
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This part 50 266 serves as the necessary introductory
background, on the same lines as does the Kathamukha
portion of Bana's K膩dambar墨, with the difference that
Dhanap膩la commences his narrative at a point where B膩峁嘺
starts his description of Ujjayin脧. As the K膩dambari
deals with three births of the heroes (Pundarika -
Vai艣amp膩yana the parrot %; the Moon Candr膩p墨岣峚 -
King Sudraka ), the Kath膩mukha portion lays the founda-
tion of the story on the present and naturally intro-
duces the characters, in their third and final birth,
in the forms of King Sudraka and the parrot. Dhanap膩la
treats of only two births of his herdes (Jvalanaprabha
Harivahana ; Sumali Samaraketu) and therefore he
d's has no use for the Kath膩mukha part of the structure
of B膩峁嘺's K膩dambari. Even then it is interesting that
he has picked up the useful incidents of the parrot
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and Jab膩li to transform them so as to suit his own story.
51 I (b):- This part begins with the description of
the seize of Ka帽ci and the night attack and ends with
the incident of a love-letter found by Ma帽jiraka and
consequent miserable condition of Samaraketu. It consists
of the descriptions of the seize of Kanc卯 by Vajrayudha,
the supernatural power of the B膩l膩ru峁嘺 ring, Samaraketu'搂
50.TM(N).pp.7-80.
51.ibid.pp.80-114.
