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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of a veritable physical union even though she sees him from
the rampart wall of the temple while Samaraketu is sailing
249 in a boat down below in the ocean at a short distance.
250 She is attracted mainly by the manliness and handsomeness
of Samaraketu, though in the subconscious it is the trans-
existential bond of love that is at work. It is the same bo-
nd which telepathically assures her in her heart of hearts
about the safety of her lover whom she has actually seen
251 throwing himself into the ocean.
The passionate aspect of her love is present in her an
several attempts at suicide at the prospect of interminable
separation; thus, when she throws herself into the ocean
after Samaraketu, she hopes to embrace him although after
being drowned ? 52 when she again tries to drown herself in the
western sea it is with the hope that she might atleast have
the joy of touching the water already touched by her beloved
253 who had formerly thrown himself into it%;B when she gives up
the idea of committing suicide in the Ad峁涐梗峁璦para lake, it is
254 with the hope that he might be alive.
It is her fidelity in love that makes her take to as-
cetic mode of life when she has almost lost all hopes of
ever being united with him in her present life. But at the
249.TM(N),p.277(16ff.).
251.ibid.,p.332(19-20).
253.ibid.,p.333(15-16).
/ 250. ibid., pp.276-277.
/ 252. ibid.,p.292(3-4).
/ 254. ibid., p.344(21-22).
