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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.

Chapter 13 - Religious and Philosophical data

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17 (of 52)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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I 608 for extracting boons from the goddess. 58,
The forest tribes
daily offered human victims for propitiating the goddess
59 Sāmmṇā� Caṇḍikā. The frightened travellers recited the
ó
hymn called Caṇḍikā-daṇḍaka/safety while they passed by
the tribal villages of the Sabaras in the Vindhya forest.
(4) WORSHIP AT THE JAIN TEMPLES :-
61 60
Shri Kanaiyalal B. Dave has noticed that the
image-worship among the Jains seem to have been in vogue
in India since about the fourth century B.C. There is a
certain similarity in the Brāhmaṇico-Purāṇic tradition of
twenty-four incarnations, the Buddhist tradition of twen-
ty-four Buddhas and the Jain tradition of twenty-four
Tirthankaras. The last one was the founder of popular Jain-
ism after having attained Nirvāṇa as a result of most ri-
gorous penance, unrivalled non-violence, and uncommon re-
nunciation. Not only did the Tirthankaras themselves attain
Final Emancipation, but they have also laid down for the
masses a path to that end. As a mark of recognition and
deep sense of gratitude for such uncommon mercy to the
58. PM(N),p.235(15ff.)
45454:--|
59. cf.ibid.,p.200 (6)
वरार्थ� निरश� नरोपरुद्� गिरिशिखर चामुण्डा
प्रतिदिवसमन्चिप्यमाण चण्ड� को पह� � पुरुषाभि� �
निभृतमुच्चारित चण्ड� [varārthi niraśana naroparuddha giriśikhara cāmuṇḍā
pratidivasamancipyamāṇa caṇḍi ko pahā ra puruṣābhi� |
nibhṛtamuccārita caṇḍi
]
का स्तोत्� दण्ड के �
[kā stotra daṇḍa ke ma
]
60. cf.ibid., p.200(7ff.)---- 5 4 3 4
सर्वतः प्रहितभयतर� दृष्टिमा
शबरपल्लीभि� -- [sarvata� prahitabhayatarala dṛṣṭimā
śabarapallībhi� --
]
1
61. GMV,pp.439�445.
देशि� जनेन लघुतरो ल्लडध्� मानपरिसराभिः
[deśika janena laghutaro llaḍadhya mānaparisarābhi�
]

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