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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to do the likewise; (viii) At night he should again worship
the household images and recollect his faults committed du-
ring the day in respect of his vows about delimitation of
wealth, distance, injury to living beings, and etc.; (ix)
He should enjoy the sense objects only on selected days
and should always think about the unhappiness in this state
of human existence, and its being the only opportunity to
strive to ga disentangle oneself from the cycle of births
and deaths.
In this light, the routine followed even by the
most devout of his characters like Meghav膩hana, Hariv膩hana,
Tilakama帽jar墨 and others in his TM is not so typically Ja-
inistic. King Meghavahana, though he is supposed to be a
devout Jain, worships the goddess 艣r墨, though he also offers
his salutations to the Tirthankaras like R峁bha and others
at Sakr膩vat膩ra. Similarly, Prince Hariv膩hana, though an
ardent devotee of the Tirthankara R峁bha, propitiates the
Vidy膩-devat膩s, of course for the sake of the Vidyadhara
Anangarati. Some of the principal characters, both males
and females are sometimes indicated as worshipping their
private images in the morning, at mid-day and in the even-
ing, though it has nowhere been specified that the images
88 88. TM(N), pp.35(2); 173(15); 173(20ff.); 177(9); 413(14).
