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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he strikes a middle path between the taste of his audi-
ence and the personal poetic-ambition-based necessity
exhibiting his poetic and scholarly equipment in con-
sonance with the demands of his times. As is pointed
60 out by Prof. Hazariprasad Dvivedi, the age was one of
鈻� alround luxury in India, when the audience was more
q equipped and hence highly sensitive in poetic
appreciation. And the very nature of its being necessa-
rily an audible poetry a Sravya-k盲vya it was the
ear which was to be appealed to and through it latter
on the heart and head of the poetically receptive
audience. The sound appeal was bound to enjoy prece-
dence and prominence in these circumstances. The dialo-
gues, the poetic descriptions and the incidents in them-
selves appealed to the heart while the scholarly ima-
geries, the skill in antethesis and personifications,
the occasional pithy sayings, the artfully decorated
dense series of long compounds in a few lengthy gorge-
ous word-pictures, the artistic dexterity of setting
paronomasia in the verses and etc., catered to the
demands of the head.
The emphasis on the form or the content depended
on whether the audience demanded an appeal to the head
60.PBKV.pp.128-129.
