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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region. Not only that, like Narav膩hanadatta, Hariv膩hana
is also proficient in the sciences of elephant, horse,
chariot, weapons and missiles, and in the arts of painting,
35 sculpture and lute-playing?" A Vidy膩dhara is invariably
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able to fly in the sky. The Vidyadharahood is attained
37 by penance and worship. References to, and descriptions
of, Vet膩la are also found? o Naravahanadatta undergoes pena-
nce`and
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nce and Vidyadharas guard his place. Prayers to the gods
and deities
both in Sanskrit and Pr盲krit are conse鈥�
quently the natural features: So is the memory of past b
41 births Daily worship and discourses on transcient nature
42 of human happiness are normal routine + 2 Geographical islands
like Ratnak奴ta, Karp奴ra, Suvar峁嘺, Simhala and Ka峁乭a, and
sea-voyage to them are also referred to%3B so are both the
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ranges of the Vidyadharas in the Himalayas, which reminds
35.KSS.VI.viii.172.
36.ibid.IV.ii.56.
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37.ibid.V.i.16; V.ii.295; VI.viii.90;VII.i.76; VII.vi.14;
VIII.ii.22; VIII.vi.163ff.; IX.ii.409;IX.v.208; XIII.
iii.92-95.
38.IX.v.208;XII.viii.20.
39.ibid.XIII.iii.92-95.
40.ibid.V.iii.146-1473 VII.i.99-102; VII.iii.44-46; VIII.
i.139-140; IX.iii.166-175%; IX.iv.29-38%; IX.v.125-126;
IX.v.162-167%;B IX.vi.29-33; XVIII.iii.103-104.
41.ibid.VI.i.82%3B IX.ii.68%; IX.iii.392.
42.ibid.VII.iv.79; IX.i.26-28.
43.ibid.V.ii.9%; IX.vi.55-62; XVIII.iii.110.
44.ibid.XIII.iii.65-66%; XV.i.61...
