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 (“prose-romance�). The author, Dhanapala was a court poet to the Paramara king Munja, who ruled the Kingdom of Malwa in ancient west-central India.
Chapter 16 - The Tilakamanjari as a Sanskrit novel
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Harivāhana (p.76); commotion of soldiers in a military camp
due to a night-attack (p.84); a pair of fast riding messenge-
rs (p.85); arrow-fight between Vajrayudha and Samaraketu (p.
89); worship of the ocean (p.123); Samaraketu boarding a
ship (p.131); ways and means of teasing the animals (p.183);
anenraged a mad elephant and efforts of the elephant-trainers
to tame it (p.185); the acquatic birds heading towards water
(p.204); the leader of a herd of hogs (p.208); a group of
horses (p.226); the Holy-Bath Ceremony of Lord Mahāvīra (p.
269); attempt at suicide by hanging (pp.305-306); a parrot
(p.375); Mahodara waving a bunyan branch in anger (p.381);
ayoung wife urging her husband not to die (p.397); and Hari-
vāhana propitiating the mystic Vidyās (399-400).
(iv) The notable descriptions of groups in action are:
King Meghavāhana's retinue in procession (pp.65-66); an army
out for a night-attack (pp. 85-86); a marching procession of
Samaraketu (pp.115-116); cows let free for grazing (p.117);
the tired crew of a ship (p.138); hullabaloo of an army łzadk
landing on the sea-shore (pp.139-140); a naval camp (p.140);
a group of flying Vidyādharas (pp.152-153); soldiers chasing a
a running mad elephant (p.187); procession of the Vidyadhara
Emperor Harivāhana (p.233); a fair (p.323); and the festivi-
ties in a royal harem (p.423).
