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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on her; as is evident from her sudden arrival in the harem
268 garden when the princess throws herself into the noose.
The practical nature of Bandhusundari is exhibited
when at first, though in intense misery, she tries various
ways and means to rescue Malayasundari from the slowly ti-
ghtening noose%3B but when she feels helpless, she runs away
to the nearest temple and commissions the help of an unkno-
wn prince (Samaraketu) and at last saves the princess. 269
so much
Her love for Malayasundari makes her overjoyed at her re-
scue that she forgets that the prince is a stranger to
her; and overpowered by the good turn he
had done to her in
the critical moments of life and death, she frankly tells
the man everything about the princess, inferring him to be
270.
a nobly born one from his dress and etc.. When at last
Malayasundari comes to life she heaves a sigh of relies.
Again, when she comes to know that the man is none else but
the very lover of the princess, she plays the guardian of
Malayasundari and offers the princess's hand in marriage to
271 Samaraketu. She is so much beside herself at the happy
rescue of her beloved ward that, in the absence of any other
means of offering a welcome to the prince, she simply greets
him by giving him a hard hug in his neck, of course (perhaps)
272 on behalf of the princess :
268. TM(N),p.302(9-15);307(7拢拢.).
269. ibid.,pp.307-309; 324(12ff.).
270. ibid.,p.310(1-18).
272. ibid., p.316(10-22).
/271. ibid.,p.312(9ff.).
