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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浜� 1024 love and union of their respective pairs of kr忙s heroes
17 and heroines, they are poles apart so far as their real
inner significances are concerned; while Ba峁嘺ls significan-
ce is microscopically implicit, Dhanapala's allegory is te-
lescopically explicit.
B膩峁嘺 preferred to pick up the skeleton for his narra-
tive of the Kad. from the story of Sumanas as told by Gu峁嚹�-
dhya in his B峁沨atkatha. Both Prof. S.V.Dixit and Dr.Neeta
19 18
Sharma' have observed that as far as the main outline of
the plot is concerned, B膩峁嘺 has followed the original story
from the B峁沨atkath膩 very faithfully, except on some occasion:
especially at the end, and that he has changed the n names
of the characters and places; the original story of two bir-
ths is transformed by B膩峁嘺 into a story of three births.
B膩峁嘺's real poetic power consists in breathing the very life
in the skeleton by adding many new situations, new details,
new incidents and elaborate descriptions. As has been right-
20 ly pointed out by Dr. Neeta Sharma, originality脿 does not
lie in pure inventiveness but often it lies in the
way a poet handles even an ols subject, giving it entirely
new shape, and that Bana's originality lies in his style or
presentation of the theme.
17.cf.Mag.Vol, I, No. 2, p. 83: 啶啶班啶� 啶溹え啷嵿ぎ啶距え啷佮啶むぞ 啶啶班啶むた啶班啶� 啶膏ぎ啶距え啶班啶啶� 啶ぞ啶｀ぇ啶�-
啶ぞ啶侧く啷嬥 啶ぞ啶班啶え啷嵿い啶� 啶曕 啶侧啷嵿し啷嵿く啶むく啶� 啶啶班い啶苦お啶距う啷嵿く啶距イ
[p奴rva janm膩nugat膩 pr墨tireva sam膩nar奴pe峁嘺 b膩峁嘺dhana-
p膩layo岣� p膩ryanti ke lak峁atay膩 pratip膩dy膩|
] BHLL, p.88.
ibid., p.103.
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/ 19. BLS,p.87.
