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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and it is he, again, as an intelligent and sympathetic fri-
end, who suggests to Samaraketu to go to Kanci in search of
the unknown beloved princess, viz., Malayasundari.
(v) GANDHARVAKA :-.
In the human world of Hariv膩hana, Samaraketu and
others, Gandharvaka is, though a boy of about fifteen, a
superhuman foreigner occasionally visiting the earthly regi-
on, but mostly travelling in his divine aeroplane. 143 The
beard and moustache have only recently started budding forth
144 his face. He is the son of a Vidyadhara mother whom he ob-
eys perfectly and is very truthful and carries out the commi-
of HER his mother on behalf of the Vidyadhara Queen Pattra-
lekh膩, and of Tilakama帽jar墨, very promptly employing his in-
genuity in finding out ways and means of accomplishing the
same. Dhanap膩la has portrayed him as a highly skilled painter
and a reliable messenger.
It is he who introduces Tilakamanjar墨 to Hariv膩hana th-
rough her portrait. 145 It is he who tries to save Malayasunda-
ri from the effect of poisonous fruit and while unknowingly
crossing over the Jain temple of Lord Mahavira out of haste,
incuns the terrible curse of Mahodara, and 鈻� is transformed
146 I
Even in such a plight and hopeless condi-
into a parrot.
143. TM(N),p.162(23)
145. ibid., pp.163-173.
/ 144. ibid.,p.164(23).
/ 146. ibid., pp.378-383.
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