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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respect for them, and sleeps on a rough grass-bed. Even
225,
intimes of mental agitation she does not skip over her dai-
ly worship. Even in moments of desperation she suppresses
all her signs of misery, becomes self-composed, orders spe-
cial worship of Lord Jina and addrsses a touchingly devoti-
226 onal hymn before proceeding to drown herself.
227 As an obedient daughter, she is unable to disregard
the command of her father, 'but loses hope even though one
full day has yet to elipse before the period of six months
228 stipulated by him for searching out Hariv膩hana is over.
Thus, though endowed with many a human touch, Tilaka-
ma帽jar墨 essentially remains a divine damsel scarcely touch-
ing the earthly plane and her love n is also more etherea-
lly intangible than physical.
(iii) MALAYASUNDARI :-
Malayasundari, the daughter of King Kusumase-
229 khara of Kanci, is a semi-divine heroine of the by-plot of
the TM. She is sixteen when seen by Samaraketu at the Rat-
230 nak奴峁璦 island, and eighteen when Harivahana met her at
231 Mount Ekas峁沶ga She was named 'Malayasundart' from the fact
that she was ultimately a gift of the Malaya mountain where
her father Kusumasekhara had married her mother Gandharva-
224. TM(N),p.413(10ff.).
226. ibid.,p.416($-22).
22B. ibid., p.418(11-13).
230. ibid.,p.161(14).
/诲补迟迟腻
/ 225. ibid.,p.415(16).
/ 225. ibid., p.417(13-16).
/ 229. ibid.,p.267(3拢f.).
/ 231. ibid., p.255(5).
