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.
Appendix 1 - The oldest and the other manuscripts of the Tilakamanjari
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both these Mss. were copied by the same scribe from under
some scheme of preserving the old Mss. The date of copying
is not mentioned in it.
6. The sixth one is also a Paper Ms. (V虏) stored in
the same Bhandara at Patan. It is numbered 2605 and is
written on modern paper. It consists of 171 folios and
is again an @ exact copy of the V Ms., the text as well
as the marginal notes. It seems that this Ms. was pre-
pared under the scheme of preserving the old Mss. under
the auspices of Muni Shri Caturavijayaji, the preceptor
of Muni Shri Punyavijayaji and other Jain scholars of
great repute. This Ms. was thus copied along with many
others in many other Jain Bhandaras in Gujarat about
seventy or eighty years back when the great scholar under-
took the stupendous task of listing the Mss. in different
Jain Bhabdaras.
7. The seventh one is a Paper Ms. (S Ms.) preserved
in the L.D.Institute of Indology, Ahedabad. It belongs
to, or is known to be the Ms. of, the Santisagara Up膩艣raya
at Cambay. It is listed under the Mss. of the Bhandara of
Ujambhai and numbered U/350. The details of this Ms. are
as follows:-
Name: TILAKAMA脩JAR莫.
Author: Dhanap膩la Kavi.
