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 16 - The Tilakamanjari as a Sanskrit novel
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It is only the nobility of thought allied with nobility of
language that makes the absolute greatness of pure litera-
376 ture.
Great as they were as poets, the authors of Sanskrit
prose romances were, to use with apology the words of Henry
Bett,
377 great craftsmen and the noblest passages they ever
wrote were wrought with art, the highest kind of art that
concealed art, but nevertheless with deliberate purpose of
loveliness, and the definite artifice dedicated to the crea-
tion of it; the artistry consisted largely in the choice of
words that were apt, stately, musical, memorable, daring.
378 Thus, it is precisely the writer's craft in the use of
words that must be our preoccupation in any study of style.
(ii) IMAGERY IN DHANAPALA'S LANGUAGE :-
Imagery in fiction is usually less conspicuous
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than imagery in verse; in most prose fiction imagery - when
it is present at all - operates as a half-hidden under-
current, something of which we are only sporadically aware.
But there are exceptions. When a novelist wishes to attract
attention to his images, to make us consider them as inte-
gral part of his narrative, he can extend it over a long
passage drawing detailed parallels between the object and
the thing with which it is compared, giving his imagery an
379,
unusual and exaggerated weight.
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376.SSOS,pp.18-19.
378. ibid.,p.19.
'The most common use of
/ 377. ibid., p.98.
/ 379. Tech.Mod.Fict.,p.170.
