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 17 - Bana and Dhanapala鈥擜 study in contrast
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all of them serve a definite poetic purpose of enhancing the
suspense of the story. In the Kad., Key奴raka and Kapinjala
are depicted as flying for the time being but there is no
rational basis for their doing so, since their superhuman
nature is not at all emphasized by B膩峁嘺; in the TM, however,
the Vidyadhara Muni flies on the strength of his mystic Vi-
dya, Gandharvaka does so in a celestial aeroplane or in the
form of a parrot, and Citram膩ya assuming the form of an ele-
phant flies due to his inherent superhuman powers as a Vidy膩-
dhara; so do the Vidyadharas accompanying their Emperor Vic铆-
trav墨rya as semi-divine beings. Moreover, many of the motifs
of Bana's HC, too, are found to be skillfully
terwoven in totally differen contexts in the TM. And, lastly
there are a number of motifs in the TM that have no parallel
in the Kad., nor in the HC, as has been shown in detail in
the ninth chapter.
(iii) Plot-structure :-
BE in-
As has been discussed in the ninth chapter, the
plot of Dhanap膩la's TM seems to resemble that of B膩峁嘺's Kad.
at first sight, excepting of course the Kath膩mukha portion
of the latter. But there is a vital contrast between the two
each
in that the tales of Mah膩sveta, J膩b膩li and the parrot/fully
box the preceding ones, the scheme in the TM is quite diffe-
rent. The tale of Samaraketu is not boxed in any other's,but
