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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meeting with Tilakama帽jar墨 at the temple of Lord Rsabha (pp.
360-366); Mahodara stopping Gandharvaka's aeroplane and cu-
rsing him (pp.381-383); the Vidyadhara couple completing
for committing suicide by falling first from the precipice
(pp.397-398); the goblins trying to hinder Hariv膩hana as he
sat steadily propitiating the mystic Vidy膩s (pp.399鈥�400);
and the Maharsi imparting religious instruction to an audi-
ence (pp.406-413).
(D) RETROSPECT or
SUMMARY:-
Dhanapala has employed the technique of retros-
pect on a number of occasions with various intentions, such
as, to keep the audience abreast of the story related upto
a point, to draw the attention of the audience to the skill
displayed by him in, or the purpose served by, a particular
device or description, and to enhance the curiosity by pos-
ing new questions relating to the missing links in the story
and thereby setting their imagination to work. We have al-
ready noted these instances in the fifteenth chapter under
the discussion on Suspense testifying to the poet's narra-
tive skill. We shall notice here some of them in the light
of the technique of Retrospect.
The following instances are noteworthy in this respect:
(i) The whole passage comprising the questions posed
by Samaraketu to Gandharv谩ka (pp.223,20ff.) reminds the
