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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18 In view of the standards laid down by Rudra峁璦,
'Vastu' of the TM would fall under the category of 'Utpadya'
as the whole story has been invented by the poet himself,
and Namis膩dhu the commentator of the KVL(R) has mentioned
19 the TM as an illustration of this type.
(2) THE PRESENTATION OF THE SUBJECT-MATTER (VASTU):
In the presentation of the plot Dhanap膩la seems
to have followed, on the one hand the prescription of Ru-
dra峁璦 and, on the other hand, the tradition formulated by
Subandhu, B膩峁囜箛a, Somadeva and Trivikramabhatta. Rudra峁璦 has
laid down that in a 'Mah膩-kath膩' the poet should begin with
the salutation to one's favourite deity and elders and sh-
ould give a brief account of his family and of himself as
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the author of the work. That is why Dhanapala commenced
his on the TM with a salutation to his favourite deity,
viz., the Omniscient Jina and Rsabha the First Tirthankara
and Mahavira the last one.
Then, in keeping with the tradition of B膩峁嘺, he took
up the praise of good critics and censure of bad ones and
in the process expounded his own literary standards. Then
he paid his tributes to the poets from V膩lm墨ki to Kardama-
r膩ja, whom he considered his elders in the field of litera-
ture. But this routine has been performed in such a skillful
[18. f. 119. cf. Comm. on KVL(R) XVI, 3: 3 lutar at
KVL(R),
XVI, 3a
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nija kulamabhindadhy膩tsva峁� ca kart峁泃ay膩 ||
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