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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soldiers to help Harivahana and bring him back to the
divine hermitage where she awaits the prince's arrival.
Harivahana prefers to camp at the Lahitya mountain and
carries on the search operation therefrom with the help
of the Vidyadhara soldiers.
One day, the traesurer brings to him the Candratapa
necklace and the B膩l膩ru峁嘺 ring from Meghavahana. Hariv膩-
hana sends both these things to Tilakama帽jar墨 and Malaya-
sundari, as presents. Next morning arrives Caturika with
a letter from dying disillusioned Tilakama帽jari, who is
reminded of her past birth and hence conveys her inability
to proceed further in love with Harivahana. The prince
is now desperate and out to end his life from over a
precipice, when he happens to see the competition of a
Vidy膩dhara couple to die first. Hariv膩hana takes mercy
on them and promises to attain divine powers on their
behalf and undertakes the mystic penance lasting for six
months, at the end of which he attains Vidyadharahood and
is coronated as the emperor of the Vidy膩dharas
northern Vait膩岣峢刹an range.
of the
Tilakama帽jari, on the other hand, loses all hopes
of meeting Hariv膩hana again as she remembers, at the sight
of the necklace, Jvalanaprabha as ther lover in the former
birth and starts on a pilgrimage during which she meets
