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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in royal audience, showing dissatisfaction during festivals,
displaying lethargy during the national calamities, and ex-
pressing lip-sympathy only but acting against the interest
of the suzerain. 128
Over and above the usual references to the three
129.
Saktis and six Gu峁嘺s, Dhanap膩la has given in a patholo-
gical allegory a fine, though brief, picture of proper uti-
lization of political expedients calculated to set right
the rstive feudatories. Thus, some of them were subdued
with the power of political strategy, some with political
bargainings, some by military action, some by threats ad-
ministered through the emissaries, some by isolating from
their friends, some by uprooting them, some by partial de-
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struction, some by bringing an alround pressure from the
adjoining districts, some by leaving them no other alter-
native but to sunrender themselves, some by crowning them
in their kingdom, some by publicly honouring them, some by
granting tax-relief and some by bestowing territory to
them.
130 Defeated rival kings were, when captured alive,
131 fined in mountain castles. At times the daughter of the
128. TM(N),p.114(12-16).
129. ibid., p.54(llff.); 13(1).
130. ibid., p.133(9-14).
131. cf. ibid., p. 181 (18) -- 啶え啷嵿う啷�啶曕啶むぞ啶ㄠぞ啶ぐ啶� 啶ㄠぐ啷� 啶曕啶粪ぞ啶｀ぞ 啶啶� 啶曕ぎ啶ㄠ啶︵た啶班 啶え啷嵿う啶班啶距啷嵿く啷�
啶︵啶班啶椸啶苦ぐ啶苦 ... [band墨k峁泃膩n膩mari nare k峁Ｄ佱箛膩 me峁� kamandira峁� mandarak膩khyo
durgagiri岣� ... ] 1
