Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala (study)
by Shri N. M. Kansara | 1970 | 228,453 words
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. Alternative titles: Dhanap膩la Tila...
22. Description of Domesticated parrots
It seems to have been a mark of culture to tame and train parrots and keep them in the cages hung in the houses and hermitages. Dhanapala has testified to such a practice in a couple of references to such parrots. Thus Malayasundari loved to teach Subhasitas to a young parrot in her harem-garden at Kanci. 414 The parrot in the cage hung in the banquet-hall of TilakamanjarI's palace is mentioned as melodiously singing the auspicious verses befitting the 415. occasion. The parrots resting in their nests on the trees -- 412. cf.Tilakamanjari, p. 312 (6) muhuh svasampayinom mukhavasaparimala hta nudhanamadhukrtah uttariya pallavena vyavarttayantam | - 413. ibid.,p.69(5) maniyalad grahakah grahinisa-na 414. cn. ibid., p.302(2) matsubhasitani --- ; 233(5)-- syo tyatityatad- 2344 " ma tani vismarisyati samasannapanjara jusah prakrti kalakanthasya 415. ibid.,p.374(12ff.)-- 123: 454502-21 man galapathakasyaiva pathatah sukaviha hasya prasan gagatai bhaugavali vrtaih punah punarjanita vismayah - - .1
579 of the hermitage on Mount Ekasrnga were sufficiently trained to remind the forgotten portions of the hymns to the Holy Gandes sung in the morning by the old house-holder hermits. And the parrots seem to be employed for exchanging messages alsp. 417