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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so broadly human that its appeal is to men and women in ge-
neral; (ii) the theme should be of enduring interest; (iii)
the story should be coherent and pursuasive; it should have
the
a beginning, a middle and an end, and the end should be袛na-
tural consequence of the beginning; (iv) the episodes should
have probability and should not only detelope the theme, but
grow out of the story; (v) the creature of the novelist's
imagination characters should be observed with indivi-
duality, and their actions should proceed from their chara-
cters; (vi) their speech should also proceed from character;
the dialogue should be neither desultory nor should it be
an occasion for the author to air his views%3B it should serve
to characterize the speakers and advance the story; (vii)
the narrative passages should be vivid, to the point and
no longer than is necessary to make the motives of the per-
sons concerned, and the situation in which they are placed,
clear and convincing; (viii) the writing should be simple
enough for anyone of fair education to read with ease, and
the manner should fit with the matter; and finally (ix) a
novel should be entertaining; it is the essential quality
without which no other quality avails; and the more intelli-
gent a novel offers, the better it is.
36 At the same time, warns W.Somerset Maugham, on even
if the novel has all the qualities mentioned above, and
36. TNATA,p.14.
