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.
Chapter 16 - The Tilakamanjari as a Sanskrit novel
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this very period in waiting for the news about Haribahana
getting a message from him, and setting out in search of him.
The events move in such a quick succession.
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By the time Hariv膩hana met Malayasundari for the first
time at the temple on Mount Ekas峁沶ga, she was about eighteen
years. Thus about two years seem to have elapsed between the
periods when Samaraketu and Hariv膩hana saw her for the first
times respectively.
Thus, the poet has skillfully offered an 'authentic'
version of reality by compressing the actual action of the
novel in a period of roughly two years. Here can we claim
that Dhanap膩la has succeeded in maintaining the Aristotelian
@ 'unity of time' and, with the help of the supernatural, the
'unity of place' too, though the places of action are situa-
at,
ted and separated by, thousands of miles from each other.
(iv) CAUSE AND CONTINGENCY :,
The novel, in its dealings with human affairs,
implicitly acknowledges the place of circumstantial, though
not causal, evidence. Questions of relevance are consequent-
ly very ambiguous%3B what is 'relevant' to a narrative inclu-
357,
des both the causal and the contingent. 'Graham Hough makes
a tellingly obvious, though often ignored, point: The novel
includes more of merely contingent, the accidental, than any
358 other literary kind.
357. Tech.Mod.Fict., p.69.
358. Op. cit.
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