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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/2 28. SAUDHARMAKALPA: one of the divisions of the Heamen (407,1). 29. SVARGA-CYAVANA: the fall from the Heaven at the end of the heanenly life-span (38,8;41,23;44,17); it is accompanied by unhappiness (36,22), and is forboded (407,5), by certain indications such as beginning of dropping of the eyelids. (38,8), unprecedented troubles like the sack of one's city or palace (41,16ff.) 30. HEMADRI: another synonym for the Meru mountain, where the Sri-vrk峁s are supposed to grow in abundance(39,3). 3 II: Brahmanical and Puranic:-
L. AGASTYA : his birth in a water-jar (370,20) 151,11);
Vindhya mountain increasing day by day (160,17); Aga-
stya commanded the mountain to prostrate before him
when he was on his way to the south till he returned.
But he never returned, as a result the mountain was
much annoyed (151,11;172,15;173,14;343,aff.;82,10);
his extraordinary digestive fire (121,9ff.) in drink-
ing the whole ocean in one great handful (125,15;249,
15); the gems of the ocean being thrown out due to
the extreme force of the Ud膩na breath (23,14ff.);
water of the rivers and etc. becomes pure with the
ascendancy of the Agastya star in the month of
