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Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala (study)

by Shri N. M. Kansara | 1970 | 228,453 words

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. Alternative titles: Dhanapāla Tila...

11. Dhanapla re-invited by Bhoja to save the honour of his court

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Merutunga's account concludes with a discordantly impossible verse put in the mouth of Dhanapala in reply to a question by Bhoja with regard to any 132 fresh composition ! Prabhacandra, on the other hand, gives a very well-knit account which continues that the absence of the poet at Dhara made Bhoja repent and remember him, especially when, after a few years, a Kaula pundit named Dharma publicly challenged Bhoja's 130.Satyapuriya-Mahavira-utsaha of Dhanapala 5-7. 131.Prabhavaka-charita 17.225-226 : tamtra srimanmahavira caitye jitye parde iva| drste sa paramananda masasada vidvamvarah || 225 || namaskrtya stutim tamtra virodha- bhasa samskrtam | cakara prakrtam deva nimmala-tyadi sasti cora259|| It is published with Gujarati translation and notes by Prof.H.R.Kapadia in Rishabha-panchashika of Dhanapala pp.200-268. 132.LC(SJGM)•P.42: adhuna kimapi prabandhadi kriyamana maste nrpene tyukta dhanapala ahe - arajala jaladaha sankhya manmukhada magata sarasvati | teja vairikamalakaca hrvyagra hasta na kavitvamasti mem|

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42 133 assembly for a scholarly debate. He despatched his spies in search of Dhanapala and found him at Satyapura in Rajasthana. At first the poet was unwilling to return but agreed when Bhoja appealed to him in the name of Munja and entreated him, in the capacity of a junior to 134 him in scholarship, to save the honour of the Avantidesa. Moved at this, Dhanapala returned to Dhara where he was reconciled to Bhoja.Prabhacandra informs us that Dhanapala now practically led a life of a renounced householder, though he did not seem to have been formally 135 initiated to the order of the Jain monks. It was at this occasion that the pathetic dialogue noted above occured.The Kaula debater, defeated at Dhanapala's hands, fled away out of shame during the early hours of the next morning, which event has been jocularly -- 136 KK_133�Prabhavaka-charita�17.231ft. : ityasya vidyamanasya cakorasya kuhusviva | pradhandharmabhidhah kaulo vidvan || 23|| sa rajamandiradvari patralambam pradattavan | kavyanyamuni calesvit natra manadimurdhani ||255|| 134.1b 1a•vs.270°°� : sritujasya mahibhartuh pratipannasuto bhavan jyestho' hai tu kanistho'rima tatkim ganyam laghovacah ||270|| jaye parajaye vapyavantidesah sthalam tava || 27|| -- jilla dhari vayam kaulah paradesi prayasyati || 273|| tatte rupam virupa vam janasi svayameva tat ||274 || 135.1b 1d.vs.278:dhanapalastatah sadhuvadid brahmano'pyaham | nihsprstah jainalinaga sravasyam tad vrata samsprhah ||78|| | 136.cf.supra. incident No.14 noted in the Prabhavaka-charita 17.282.ff.

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43 commemorated by Prabhacandra in a verse which says that the adage "Dharma ultimately wins, not the one other than Dharma (a- dharma)" has been proved false ; tahowever, 137 the other adage "Dharma is quick in gait" has come true.

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