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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suicide after her lover's immolation in the eye-fire
of 艢iva. Similarly it is the "bodiless utterance in metre"
(sariram vin膩 chandomay墨 v膩峁噄) that conveys to K膩艣yapa,
i.e.Kanva, the news about the love and its consequences
with reference to Sakuntala, in the beginning of the
fourth Act of the SAK. And love-letter is also common.
(3) Subandhu:- Subandhu has utilized the incident
of the parrot by making him narrate, to its beloved, the
story of S峁沬g膩rasekhara and Ang膩ravati and about the love
51 of V膩savadatt膩 for Kandarpaketu. The motif of a love-letter
is utilized once when V膩savadatt膩's message is delivered
52.
to Kandarpaketu by Tamalika? Kandarpaketu tries to commit
53 suicide due to the pangs of separation from his beloved,
and the incorporeal voice (膩k膩艣a-sarasvat墨) prevents him
from that calamity. The motifs of the curse and the touch
of the lover transforming the creeper into a human being
54 are also utilized. Subandhu also resorts to the use of
55 verses in order to relieve the monotony of prose.
(4) B膩峁嘺:- In the K膧D Mah膩sveta's curse to Vai艣amp膩-
yana transforms him into a parrot. There the parrot is
50.Kum.IV.39-45.
51.VK(S).pp.17-27.
52.ibid.p.28.
53.ibid.p.47.
54.ibid.p.53.
55.ibid.p.16;20;28.
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56.KAD.pp.617-618.
