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 (“prose-romance�). 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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comparision to ٳԲ in the description of a Vetāla
or a double-meaning invocation to a boat ::
On the other hand, Dr.Pathak is nearer the truth when
he admits that the points of similarity are in fact the
25 traditional poetic conventions, that Danapala is no mere
imitator of Bāṇa, that Bāṇa was the particular ideal for
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26 (vi) Style and Diction :-
The ornate style of Sanskrit prose-romance had
developed through centuries from the times of Patanjali.
It was further perfected by Dandin я and Subandhu. But
it was Bāṇa who added to it the degree of richness, poetic
sentiments, devices, figures of speech and elaboration of
minute descriptions with heaped up epithets comprising too
long compounds. But, it is an unquestionable fact that he
was attracted by Subandhu's artificial ornamental style of
representation and wonderful use of puns; and, being a ge-
nius, he could carefully keep clear of the pitfalls of Su-
bandhu while using all his literary devices, mach»nonas
He was so much influenced by Subandhu that he incorpo-
rated in his works numerous sentences verbatim from the
latter's VK.;B and many of the descriptions of the Kad. are
28 25. Mag., Vol. I, No. 2, p. 85 : कतिच� कादम्बरी कथ� गत� ख्ख्� स्तिलक -
कथागता
मञ्जर्या सदृशंतया सम्प्रतीयन्त� �
[katicana kādambarī kathā gatā khkhya stilaka -
첹ٳ岵
mañjaryā sadṛśaṃtayā sampratīyante |
] 26. ibid. p. 87: पर� धनपालो बा� मनुक बाणानुकर� मात्� मिति नैवास्माकं पक्ष� �
[para� dhanapālo bāpa manuka bāṇānukaraṇa mātra miti naivāsmāka� pakṣa� |
] 27. ibid.,p.89: महाकविर्बा� एव� विशिष्� धनपा� स्यादर्शभू� आसीद्--- [mahākavirbāṇa eva� viśiṣya dhanapāla syādarśabhūta āsīd---] 1
28. VK(S), Introduction,pp.40-48.
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