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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Dr. Keith remarked that Dhanapaka Dhanap膩la recogni-
zed his debt to B膩峁嘺 and perhaps that is the best that can
413 be said of him. And he has had such worthy, though
414 Dr.S.K.De,
417.
415 418
blind, followers like Dr. M.Krishnamachariar,
Prof. S.V.Dixit, Dr.Neeta Sharma, Dr.Harindrabhushan Jain
and many others, in this respect. It is not surprising; for
Dr. Keith does not seem to have read the work of Dhanap膩la
carefully, but rather in a cavalier manner, and caught hold
of the names of a couple of characters like Samaraketu and
Tilakamanjar茂 and, without caring to know who they were, he
promptly married this hero of the by-plot with the heroine
of the main plot : It is amusing that the above-mentioned
Worthy line of his followers dutifully repeated their
master's voice right up to this day, without any one of them
ever trying to look for the facts themselves.
Dr. Krishnamachariar, though guilty of the same carele-
ssness and the more so since he knew about the Sanskrit su-
mmary of the TM compiled by R.V.Krishanachari but apparently
did not care to go through even that, seems to have at least
taken mercy on Dhanap膩la whom he finds "easy in expression
and full of imagination".419
Dr. De is rather uncharitable when, while recognizing
413. HSL(K), p.331; also CSL,p.69. / 414. HCSL,p.475.
415. HSL(DD), p.431. / 416.. BHLL,p.155. / 417. BLS,p. .225.
418. Samvid, Vol. IV, Nos.1-4,p.125. / 419. HCSL,p.475.
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