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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relating fresh humorous episodes. 279
She seems to have been a daughter of the Vidyadhara
Emperor Vicitravi虈rya by some inferior wife or a concubine,
as is clear when she informs us that Gandharvadatt膩 was her
younger sister; and both Gandharvadatta and Pattralekh盲 we-
re the daughters of Vicitravirya; she could never be a mere
maid-servant unless she be of an humble birth :
(vi) TARANGALEKH膧 :-
280.
Tarangalekha is a harem-maid of Queen Gandharva-
datta since her very young age and was commissioned with the
task of protecting Malayasundari from physical harm and res-
training her fron fickleness or rashness, when the princess
was sent away to the hermitage of Kulapati Sant膩tapa. Dha-
nap膩la has portrayed in her a character of a peevish matron
who seems to have disliked his commission and is always pro-
ne to finding fault and scold her ward whenever the latter
does anything which bears on her responsibility.
We have a taste of her roughness towards Malayasundari
when the latter tries to run towards the waters of the ocean.
She at once gathers the sinister motive behind it and qui-
ckly pursues her. When she finds that Malayasundari has tried
to commit suicide by eating some poisonous fruit she loses
her temper and fires her with extremely rude words like a
281 common shrew. She does not seem to have a single drop of
279. TM(N),p.268(7ff.).
281. ibid., pp.335-336.
/ 280. ibid., p.330(18ff.).
