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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for her parents she prefers to offer herself in self-marriage
(鈻犫枲(svaya峁僾ara) and save the life of love-lorn Samaraketu
rather than wait for their permission.
240 She is highly shrewd as can be seen in number of inci-
dents, such as, her apparent scolding to the temple-boy while
241 indirectly conveying a message to Samaraketu, in her in-
genious pretext of throwing the garland into the neck of Sa-
her unruffled demeanour
maraketu down below in the ocean,
242 ner
and stealthy movements while proceeding to the harem-garden
243.
for committing suicide, her precautions before hanging
herself into the noose, and her expertize in gathering the
thoughts of others from the facial features and behaviour
as when she pleads on behalf of Harivahana to get him
245 the permission of Tilakama帽jar墨 to return to Ayodhy膩, as
also when she divines the not-yet-expressed love-lorn condi-
246 tion of Tilakamanjari. Her shrewdness thoroughly passes
the acid test when we find that Hariv膩hana feels her affect-
247 ion for him to be motherly.
In love she is steadfast, and once she chose Samaraketu
as her would-be husband, she takes herself to be practically
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as good as a married wife, althogh she would offer herself
248.
to him formally at her father's place. Her love is purely
earth-bound and passionate, as she experiences all the fee-
-------/ lings
240. TM(N),288(3ff.); 282(4).
241. ibid.,288(19ff.).
/ 242. ibid.,p.289(1-3).
243.ibid.,pp.300-305./244.ibid.,p.306./245.ibid., p.385(9鈥�21).
246.ibid., p.386(3)./247.ibid., p.387(18ff.)./248.ibid.,288
(22ff.).
