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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accepted as a member of the group and of the spiritual
life of the community to which his forefathers belong.329
Dhanap膩la has adopted this ceremony in a different manner.
The education of Hariv膩hana started in his sixth year
when on an auspicious day, the king performed all the
daily routines of his worship, annointed the prince with
sandal paste and dressed him up with clean fine silk gar-
ments, pearl necklace and floral crest, put an aus-
picious Tilaka on the prince's forehead with Gorocan膩,
and took him to the school where, in the holy presence of
the image of the goddess Sarasvati, he was handed over to
his teachers. The education started with the teaching of
the alphabet and culminated in the knowledge of all arts
330 and sciences.
(15) SAVITRI :-
There can be no place for Savitri, i.e. Gayatri-
Mantra, in the Jainistic set up of Dhanapala's TM. Yet,
being an erstwhile Brahmin, he could not but neglect this
former treasure of his totally. Thus, though there is no
mention of Savitri in the curriculum of Prince Harivahana,
the poet has clearly referred to the rite of offering
329. HSO,p.224.
330. TM(N),pp.78鈥�79.
