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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to Hamsadvipa where they put him in the herem of Ananga-
ma帽jar茂 and when brought back he is convinced about the
reality of the incident due to the ornaments. This inci-
dent bears close similarity to an incident with reference
to Malayasundari. Portraits utilized as a means of falling
and references to a young beauty busy gathering
in love'
30 flowers and recognized as identical with the one formerly
31 seen in the portrait, recall to our mind the fact that
Harivahana fell in love with Tilakama帽jar墨 at the sight of
her portrait and later on he recognized her to be identi-
cal with the one seen in the portrait, when he happened
to see her again in the creeper-bower on the shore of the
Ad峁涐梗峁璦p膩ra lake. The stipulation of entering fire if the
lover is not found out within six months reminds us of
32 the similar one by Tilakama帽jari. The penance grove of
33:
K膩艣yapa on Asitagiri and on Meru immediately calls to
memory a similar one named Pra艣膩ntavair膩艣rama of K膩艣yapa
in the TM. Naravahanadatta, an incarnation of Cupid and
destined to be an emperor of the Vidyadharas of both the
ranges (ubhayavedi)," readily resembles Harivahana who is
the incarnation of god Jvalanaprabha and is destined to
be the emperor of the northern range of the Vait膩岣峢ya
30.KSS.VI.v.18-19; IX.i.146-147;XII.xxxiv.74鈥�77.
31.ibid. XII.xxxiv.225-229; XIII.1.92-99.
32.ibid.XVIII.iii.89.
33.ibid.XVI.i.93; VIII.ii.364.
34.ibid.IV.iii.73-74;VI.iv.67-68;VIII.i.9-10.
