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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NGHA帽帽adood 1035 Sanskrit novelist of Medieval India and con-
sign him to a remote corner of the so-called "decadant"
period of the history of Sanskrit literature and bewail
that "the decline was serious n鲁?
Although there was a latent competitive spirit in Dha-
nap膩la vis-a-vis B膩峁嘺, he had great respect for the latter,
whose wonderful poetic genius and wide-spread fame had been
a powerful source for inspiration for him. His real inten-
tion, as has been discussed above in chapter nine, was to
compose such a Sanskrit novel as would be based on a story
that would conform to the tenets of Jainism, and at the
same time, to offer a new model of Sanskrit 'Kath膩' which,
while utilizing all the excellences and popular motifs of
famous master-pieces like the Kad., the HC, the Samara.,
and the KUIM, and weaving them in appropriate, though quite
different, contexts, would also mark a definite advance in
the genre.
Due to his overfondness for puns and recondite allu-
sions, Bana is never satisfied unless he uses, practically
at every step, double-meaning words and expressions; when
he begins to give long chains of Sli峁ａ弓opamas, where there
is no resemblance between the Upamana and the Upameya ex-
cept the 艢li峁ａ弓a expression, one almost gets exasperated
with him.
34 33. NHSL,p.396.
/ 34. BHLL,p.102.
