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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look at her own palm; to give charities%; to show mercy on
200 all creatures. She is a very loving mother and loves to
honour her son's friend too.
(ii) TILAKAMA脩JAR莫 :-
201 Tilakama帽jar墨, the heroine of the main plot, is
divine girl, being a Vidy膩dhara by birth. She has got an
effulgent span splendour and possesses certain super-
natural powers characteristic to the Vidy膩dharas, among whom
she is one of the best endowed being the daughter of the
Vidyadhara Emperor Cakrasena.
of divinely noble birth
Strangely enough, such a divine beauty/is destined to
be the wife of a human prince. Though Tilakama帽jar墨 her-
202.
203 self strangely averse to males as such, the the auspici-
204 ous signs on her right palm' betoken her attainment of
supreme regal position of an a crowned queen. In beauty she
205 is matchless, and by education she is a pastmaster in
painting, music, dancing, dramaturgy, sculpture, design-
206 -drawing, personal cosmetics and many other fine arts.
True to her tender age of about fifteen or sixteen, she is
fond of roaming in the gardens and forests in company ng of
her girl friends, of travelling far and wide in her divine
aeroplane, of swimming in the waters of the M膩nasa lake, of
enjoying the music of the Kinnaras and looking at excellent
鈧�200. TM(N),p.75(10ff.).
202. ibid., p.169(22ff.).
204. ibid.,p.175(17ff.).
/ 201. ibid.,p.103(18ff.).
鉁� 203. ibid., p.167(8); 169(8).
/ 205. ibid., p.241(15-17).
206. ibid., p.363(9-14); 391(6-8).
