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 (“prose-romance�). 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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city of Ayodhya. BHOGAVATI is referred to as a name of a
105 river in which golden lotuses grew. According to the
Amara-koṣa, the reading is 'Bhogavati' and it is the name
106 of a river and also of a city of the Nāgas. Trikāṇḍa-
śeṣa-koṣa also spells the word as'Bhogavati' ( not Bhogā-
vati) but notices it in the sense of the name of a city
of the Nāgas.
.107 Hemacandra lists the word in this sense
only, but with the reading 'Bhogāvati' though he himself
has listed it in the sense of both a city and a river,
108 with the reading 'Bhogavati', in his Anekārtha-sangraga
110 109
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SARAVATI is a river near the Mandaraka mountain.
VI: LAKES :-
Dhanapāla has referred to a few lakes also. PADMA
is situated on the
which is called a 'Kulādri-culahrada'
1114 top of the Himalayas.112 The lake PUSKARA might be the one
wellknown in Rajasthan. MĀNASA-SARA
114 113.
is situated on the
Himalayas. ADRSTAPĀRĀ is located by Dhanapāla on the top
of Mount Ekasriga.
105. TM (N), p. 214 (13ff . ) : भोगावती शातकुम्भाम्भोज वनरजोराशिम� �
[bhogāvatī śātakumbhāmbhoja vanarajorāśim |
] 106. AK, III,111, 70: नदीनग [ԲīԲ] �र्यो जगान� भोगवती --- [ryo jagānā bhogavatī ---] 1
107. TSK, I, X, 8: पुरी भोगवती चैषा� भोगिन्यो ना� कन्यका� �
[purī bhogavatī caiṣāṃ bhoginyo nāga kanyakā� |
] 108. ACH, IV,373: नागा� पुनः काद्� [nāgā� puna� kādra] �वेया� तेषा� भोगावती पुरी �
[veyā� teṣāṃ bhogāvatī purī |
] 109. AAS, IV, 128 : भोगवती चं सर्पाणां नगरे सरिदन्तर� �
[bhogavatī ca� sarpāṇāṃ nagare saridantare |
] 110. TM(N), p.181(20).
111. ibid, p. 421 (2) : पद्मादिष� कुलाद्रि चूला हदेष� -. - [padmādiṣu kulādri cūlā hadeṣu -. -] 1
112. ibid., p. 169 (22) : हिमगिरिशिखरसद्मत� पद्म मह� हृदस्य--- [himagiriśikharasadmata� padma mahā hṛdasya---] 1
113. ibid., p.168(21).
/114. ibid., p.202(16ff.);205(3);
383(7).
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