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.
Chapter 1 - The Author (biography of Dhanapala)
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commemorated by Prabhācandra 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.
XII : THE SUNSET OF LIFE :-
Dhanapāla seems to have stayed at Dhārā thence-
foreward. During this period he led a highly passive
life which almost ruled out literary activity, as has
138 been accidently noted by Merutunga, though he did com-
pose a few religious works, like the 'Savayavihī', the
Sanskrit Prakrit Virastuti' and a Sanskrit commentary
on the 'Stuti-caturvimsatikā' of his younger brother
Sobhana, a Jain monk then, who requested him for that
139 while on his death-bed. When the ending hour of his
life was in view, the poet left Dhārā and went to his
preceptor Mahendrasūri before whom he took the �***
vow of a fast unto death and left this world of his
140 own accord.
137. PRC. 17.319: धर्म� जयति जाधर्म इत्यली की कृतं वच� � इद� तु
सत्यता जी� धर्मस्� व्यक्तिा गतिः � ३१� �
[dharmo jayati jādharma ityalī kī kṛta� vaca� | ida� tu
satyatā jīta dharmasya vyakti� gati� || 310 ||
] 138.See supra ft.nt.No.132.
139.ssv.Intro. vs. 7: एतां यथामति विदृश्� निजानु� स्� तस्य�-
ज्ज्वल� कृतिमलंकृत बान् स्ववृत्यां � अध्यर्थिनो� विद्यत� चिदि�
प्रयाण� तेनै� साम्प्रतकविर्ध� पालनाम� ॥७�
[etā� yathāmati vidṛśya nijānuja stha tasyo-
jjvala� kṛtimalaṃkṛta bān svavṛtyā� | adhyarthino� vidyatā cidiva
prayāṇa� tenaiva sāmpratakavirdhana pālanāmā ||7||
] ; also PRC.17.320: तासा�
जिवस्तुती जो � सिद्� सारस्वतः कविः � रीको चकार सोदर्यस्ने�
चिनी बह� दृङ्खम� � ३२७॥
[�
jivastutī jo ca siddha sārasvata� kavi� | rīko cakāra sodaryasneha
cinī bahana dṛṅkham || 327||
] This last work might have been written before the poet
composed his TM.
140.see next page.
