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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of princes and painters and gitizens Citracaryas were ri-
ghtly cited as instructive edifications, As has been noted
in preceding chapters, the period was characterized by a
munificent royal patronage to sculptures, painters, poets
and craftsmen and all such gifted sorts. Instead of being
a stray thing preserved in a museum kept aloof and dissə-
ciated from daily life, Art was an element throbbing in
the very veins of active and vigourously alive in all
walks of socio-cultural aspects of contemporary life.
Painting was one of the important arts in the curri-
culum of the princes and princesses who are depicted by
Dhanapāla as possessing encyclopaedic knowledge about them.
182 Prince Harivāhana had specialized in this art as in music,
183 and matured into a connoisseur in the fields. Similarly,
in
the long list of different branches of knowledge mastered
by Princess Tilakamañjarī, the art of painting finds the
first place. Not only that, even the maid-servants of
184 185.
the royal harem were expert in this art. Lots of artists,
both professional and amateur, carried their pieces to
182. TM (N), p. 79 (14)
कुमारः �
[kumāra� |
] 183. ibia,p. 163 (14)
विशेषतश्चित्रकर्मण वीणावाद्ये �
नृत्यगी� चित्रादि कलाशास्त्र पारदृगिय�
प्रवीणत� प्राप् �
[viśeṣataścitrakarmaṇa vīṇāvādye ca
nṛtyagīta citrādi kalāśāstra pāradṛgiyā
pravīṇatā prāp |
] 4141 हरिवाह [] �नो ना�
[no nāma
] 184. ibid.,p.363 (11ff.) यद� � कौतुकं ललचित्रकर्मण� वीणादिवाद्ये ..
पृथ्च्छनाम�... [yadi ca kautuka� lalacitrakarmaṇi vīṇādivādye ..
ṛt峾... ] 1
.
185. cf. ibid., p.170(6)-- संखि चित्रलेख, त्वं हि चित्रकर्मण� पर�
प्रकरिणा� [saṃkhi citralekha, tva� hi citrakarmaṇi para�
첹ṇā| ] 22
