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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 16 - The Tilakamanjari as a Sanskrit novel

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135 (of 138)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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leaders, and the philosophers and the artists%;B and that
art became a national movement understood, enjoyed and im-
bibed by the people.
The supernatural element in the narrative may also be
objected to by some as sounding rather unrealistic and irra-
tional by the modern mind. But poets of all times and all �
nations have not been deterred by such considerations. And
how can we hold Dhanapāla answerable for it when we find
veteran Western poets like Shakespeare, Milton, and shosh a
host of others freely utilizing this motif which was based
on a tacit popular faith of people of all generations ?
Sanskrit and Prakrit folklore, selected the semi-divine
Vidyādharas as their heroes and heroines for the reason that
they were midway between the too happy divine beings and too
unhappy human beings and nobody liked to listen to a tale
The belief in supernatu-
ral element was, thus, one of their normal beliefs and gave
an additional colour to the entertaining nature of a narra-
tive.
that abounded or ended in misery. 412,
And lastly, we must take cognizance of the critical
remarks of veteran historians of Sanskrit literature like a
Dr. A.B.Keith, Dr. M.Krishnamachariar and Dr. S.K.De,and of
a passing reference by authors of special studies on Bāna
like Prof. S.V.Dixit and Dr. Neeta Sharma.
412. Kss, I,i, 47-48 ab: एकान्नसुखिनो देवा मनुष्य�
चेष्टा
तु
परंभाग� � हारिणी � विद्याधराणां चरितमतस्ते
नित्यदुः [ekānnasukhino devā manuṣyā
ṣṭ
tu
paraṃbhāge na hāriṇ� || vidyādharāṇāṃ caritamataste
Ծٲⲹ�
]
खिता� � दिव्यमानुष-
वर्णमाम्यहम् |
[khitā� | divyamānuṣa-
varṇamāmyaham |
]

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