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.
Chapter 15 - The Tilakamanjari as a Prose Poetic work
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one kind and is called the Vaidarbhi Riti; the collocation
with compounds is of three kinds, and are related with
Gau岣嵞珁膩, P膩nc膩lf and L膩峁璱y膩 if the compounds are too long,
of two or three words, and of five or seven words respective-
ly. Long before Bhoja, Rudrata knew the Vrttis which were
Anupr膩sa J膩tis. And Dhanap膩la too mentions J膩ti as one of
the best figures of speech (alank峁泃i). 526 Thus, though in
poetics we have many concepts having the name V峁泃ti, such
as (i) varieties of alliteration (anupr膩sa-j膩ti); (ii) va-
rieties of compounded collocation (sam膩sa-j膩ti); (iii) the
significatory capacities of words; and (iv) the old V峁泃tis
like Kaisiki etc., of these the first will be taken up
when we consider the Alankaras. The second and the third,
being more or less identical with the Ritis, donot need
further discussion. As to the fourth, the whole field of
Sravya K膩vya, in the opinion of Dr. V.Raghavan, 527is Bh膩ra-
t峄� V峁泃ti. Descriptions of love, evening, moonlight, seasons
etc., must be Kaisiki and of war etc., Arabhati. S膩ttvati,
if we accept it as the name of action, is as absent from
K膩vya as is Bh膩rati is present. Bh膩rati or the text of the
528 whole K膩vya will, opines Dr. V. Raghavan, be modified acco鉂�
rding to the stuation, by Kasiki and Arabhati, producing
527-526. SCOAS,p.182.
528. ibid.
526. TM (N), p. 159 (16 st): Gift Thainisani...
