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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678 137
and were expert at fast riding. The elephant corps
seems to have formed the major arm of those days and they
appear to have been elaborately equipped and employed in
138 great numbers.
Of the military formations only two, viz,, Anīkini
and Vāhinī are mentioned.
139 They were commanded by an
Anīka-nāyaka and a Vähinīpati respectively. 140 The authori-
ty of the commander-in-chief (dandadhipa) extended over all
the four arms of the military forees, including also the
naval corps.
(b) UNIFORM OF SOLDIERS AND THEIR EQUIPMENTS :
Soldiers covered up their heads with a long piece of
cloth on which they wore various types of helmets, and the
trunk proper was protected by different types of steel ar-
Usual auspicious marks, such as, a Tilaka of
Rocanã and Durvā sprouts were of course to be put on.
mours
141 لى
:
142 Among the military weapons, sword, spear, and bow predomi-
nated, though other weapons like mace, discus, dart, fire-
missile
137. cf. ibid, p. 242 (3ff.) पृष्ठत� वहगि रन वर� तर्जित, जात्यव� है वहिनी -
प्रतिभिरन्यै श्राबद्धपरिकरै� परिकार मेण्� वण्ठप्रायः प्रजविभि� सैन्थ्योधैरन� �-
ध्यमान� ..- [pṛṣṭhato vahagi rana varata tarjita, jātyavā hai vahinī -
pratibhiranyai śrābaddhaparikarai� parikāra meṇṭha vaṇṭhaprāya� prajavibhi� sainthyodhairanu ba-
dhyamāna� ..-] 1
138. cf. ibid., p.86(16)
आगत्� करिधाराभिः समन्तत� [āgatya karidhārābhi� samantata� ] etc.;
215(21ff.) -- 'चक्रवर्त� सैन्� मिवाने � रत्न शारी कृ� मत्तवारण परिक�
[cakravarti sainya mivāne ka ratna śārī kṛta mattavāraṇa parikara
] 227 (22) भुवनविजय प्रवृत्त मकरध्व� गजानी�
[bhuvanavijaya pravṛtta makaradhvaja gajānīka
] 139. ibid., p.83(2); 242,(3).
140. ibid., p.187(12); 242(3).
141. ibid.,p.85 (11) 41414431; (P.T.O.)
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