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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Future incidents are indicated by means of dramatic
irony suggesting the future marriage of Malayasundari with
195 Samaraketu,
and this serves to enhance our curiosity as
to how the poet is going to manage this when he made both
196.
of these lovers drown themselves into the ocean. The poet
consciously indicates his future plan by assuring us, through
the words of Bandhusundari, that though drowned Samaraketu
will be saved and he would set out in search of Malayasundar
ri 197
The rationality of the poet is remarkably noteworthy
when he brings the hopelessly desperate lovers,
very
viz.,
Samaraketu and Malayasundari, near to each other
without their knowledge when the former has been passing his
night alone in the temple of Cupid in the Kusum膩kara garden
198 at Kanci while the latter reaches the door of the temple a
bows down to
and makes the deity from outside lest somebody might no-
tice her as she is out to commit suicide.
199 The poet is highly conscious of his plot-construction
an in so far as he tries to carry his audience with him by
recapitulaing the past events as the narrative progresses
ine
from point to point. That is why takes such an opportunity
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195.
in
TM(N),p.295(8ff.):341 it 啶灌た 啶むい啷嵿ぐ啶さ啶距え啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ 啶掂じ啷佮ぐ啶距い啶� 啷�
[hi tatrabhav膩n膩rtha vasur膩ta岣� |
] sef.
啶� 啶むう啷嵿き啶距し啶苦い啷� 啶洁ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶� 啶曕う啶距啶苦う啷嵿さ啶苦じ啶傕さ啶︵い啶� 啷� [na tadbh膩峁to 'rtha岣� kad膩cidvisa峁僾adati | ] etc.
196. ibid., p.292(2-6)..
/ 197. ibid.,p.296(5ff.)
鈥�
198. ibid., p.324(13-14). / 199. ibid., p.305(16-17).
