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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beauty made him accept her hand although she was born in a
family of sailor who was lower in social strata and far more
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incomparably so with reference to his own one. 'It was al-
most a case of self-ahnegation for him to have married
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to her, since in his heart of hearts he was ashamed for ha-
ving stooped to the self-surrender of a in low-born, though
beautiful, maiden and thus tarnished his name among his ca-
ste-fellows. This feeling was so strong for him that even
when he later on came to know that his wife was after all
not a daughter of the sailor and that in reality Jalaketu
was only the foster father of her for having reared her up
after she was rescued from a sinking ship; and when his ca-
ste-fellows reconciled with him and invited him back with
them to his native place, he would not like to show them
his face, and rather preferred to take to, and master, a
136 profession which was totally new to him.
The original complexion of his body seems to have under-
gone heavy tanning due to his profession of a sailor, though
137 his features betrayed him to be a man of noble birth. In
age and experience he was an elder to Samaraketu by about
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seven years, though in social status he was just a sailor-
chief appointed by, and serving, the father of the prince.
135. TM(N),p.128(16ff.).
/ 136. ibid.,p.129(llff.).
137. ibid.,p.124(23ff.); 126(20ff); 脿n
138. ibid.,p.126(15).
