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 15 - The Tilakamanjari as a Prose Poetic work
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प्रसाधकं कुरूपाणामध्यापकमशे� विभ्रमकलानां
वतारमणैः
वतार मंगे� � ( [prasādhaka� kurūpāṇāmadhyāpakamaśeṇa vibhramakalānā�
ṇa�
vatāra maṃge� | (] 264,8ff..
अंगीकृतवती नवयौवन�-
[aṃgīkṛtavatī navayauvanā-
] It is to be noted here that we have confined ourselves
to the narrative part proper of the TM in illustrating the
use of various figures of speech by Dhanapāla, and have not
touched those in the bé introductory verses to the text.
VII : K Å V YA-DOSAS
or POETIC
BLEMISHES :-
Sanskrit rhetoricians have emphasized upon the
intellectual equipment (vyutpatti) of poets, by which they
expected in them a thorough knowledge of the ways of the
world, of men, sciences, arts and what not. The poet � was
expected to be alert in the choice of words, and observance
of the rules of grammar, logic and poetic conventions. Cri-
tics have not been sparing in picking up inexcusable flaws
from the works of top-ranking poets like Kālidāsa, Bhāravi,
Māgha, Śrīharṇa, and others. It may never be feasible for
a poet to totally eschew all possible faults. But, as a
setter of literary norms and ideals, the critic has to be
a scholar competent in appreciating good points (guṇajna)
and in exposing the defects (doṣajna), as is evident from
the definitions of Poetry (Kavya) postulated by rhetoricians
from Bharata to Bhoja and many others, all of whom have ge-
nerally accorded co-equal status to diction (sabda) and
