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.
Chapter 15 - The Tilakamanjari as a Prose Poetic work
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The casual alliterative `manaphth眉sna remark, viz., "Kamala-
guptasya guptena bh奴tva satvaramaya峁� pr膩pa峁嚹珁o lekha岣�" 239
is meant to justify the incidents previously narrated as to
how Kamalagupta had found the letter of Hariv膩hana almost
from nowhere.
240 The reason why Prince Harivahana first saw fresh foot-
prints and not the ladies, 241 is revealed when he describes
how they ran away as the flying elephant crashed into the
242 waters of the Ad峁涐梗峁璦p膩ra lake. "The incident of Hariv膩hana's
first meeting with Tilakama帽jar墨 in the creeper-bower is
repeated briefly from her point of view, 243 the former de-
244 tailed narration of it being from the prince's view point.
The news about, and the narration of the cause of, love-sick,
245 condition of Tilakama帽jar墨
arouses, our curiosity especia-
246 lly in view of her aversion for males.
The poet seizes an opportunity to summarize the eve-
nts about Hariv膩hana in the form of his reflections in res-
247 ponse to the tragic tale of Malayasundari. Similarly, the
consciousness of Dhanap膩la as an artist is fully revealed
248 when he recounts, of course in a quite different context,
how Tilakama帽jar墨 did not show even the common courtesy of
239. TM(N),p.349(15ff.).
241. ibid., p.245(4-9).
243. ibid., p.354(10-22).
245. ibid.,p.352鈥�355.
247. ibid., p.346(8-16).
/ 240. ibid.,p.194(4-6).
/ 242. ibid., p.354(1-3).
/ 244. ibid., p.250ff.
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246. ibid.,p.169(8-16).
/ 248. ibid., p.364(3-7)).
