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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critical" and 1018 422 literary
"Unnecessarily harsh as these remarks about the veteran
modern critics of Dhanap膩la may sound to some people,
they are based on the detailed discussions of the
evaluation of the TM in the last two chapters; the necessi-
ty and harshness of the remarks are in direct proportion
of the respectability of the literary judgment of the critics
to the underlying untruth and lack of first hand careful
study of the work on their part. Since we propose to devote
a separate chapter to the detailed discussion of the questi-
on of the comparision of B膩峁嘺 and Dhanap膩la, we have here
confined ourselves to merely evaluating the real worth of
the criticism by the modern critics taken up above.
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citicism
422. cf. The Review of the Tilakamanjari-s膩ra of Pallip膩la
Dhanapala; the Review has been made by Dr.Jagganath
Aggrawala and it has been published in 'Literary Re-
views' by Vishweshvarananda Research Institute,Hoshiar-
pur, in 1970. Dr.Aggrawala seems to attribute the harsh-
ness to my being a "fervent Jain" ! It is, therefore,
necessary hamm to clarify here that neither even one of
my hundreds of forefathers right from K盲rttavirya Arjuna
of the Haihaya Gotra nor I myself have had anything to
do with Jainism as a faith in personal religious life!!
