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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drags the prince from his seat and gives an excellent compa-
ny to him when he is being taken to the palace of Tilakama帽-
jari.287
As a fast friend of Tilakama帽jar墨 she is very parti-
cular in properly looking after the comforts of the prince
and entertains him during leisure hours by playing at dice
288 with him. Naturally it is she who undertakes to serve sw-
eets to Harivahana who is the beloved of her most beloved
friend and entertains him during the banquet with her loving-.
ly brilliant jokes and arranges for the prince to be fanned
289 by the fanning dolls. And it is, again, M峁沢a峁卥alekh膩 who
rushes to Pattralekh膩 and joyfully breaks the news about
290 Malayasundari's proposed marriage with Samaraketu.
(viii) GANDHARVADATTA :-
Gandharvadatta, the pricipal consecreted queen
of King Kusumasekhara of K膩nei, is but a divine damsel un-
happily, though safely, transported to the human world in
her early childhood consequent to an unfortunate attack on
her father's celestial city by an enemy. Separated as she is
from her kith and kin at a very early age, her life is one
291 of mental misery 鈥渋n the midst of all physical comforts
that can attend on a queen of the southern half of India.
292 In her childhood at Prasantavair膩srama she was reated up as
a foster-daughter by Kulapati S膩nt膩tapa, and later on offered
f
287. TM(N),pp.366-367.
289. ibid., p.374(9ff.).
1 291. ibid., p.262(13-16).
/ 288. ibid.,p.370(2-3).
/ 290. ibid., p.423(5ff.).
/ 292. ibid,,p.224(4).
