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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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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173 52
well-versed persons. His test of a genuine saint or a
monk was the disinterestedness towards worldly prospe-
rity774After his firm conviction in, and consequent
conversion to Jainism, all efforts of his companions
belonging to the now rival, though formerly his own,
175 faith could not wean him back. His change of faith to
Jainism seems to have strenghened his belief in the
++
inevitability of the ultimate triumph and the cynical
176 nature of Fate, although, he knew that, It never trans-
177 gressed the law of causation.
173.thaadaww_T(N). p. 25 : धार्मिकजनानुवृत्त्यभिमुखान� हि भवन्ति सर्वदा
धर्मात-ववेदिनां हृदयान� �
[dhārmikajanānuvṛttyabhimukhāni hi bhavanti sarvadā
dharmāta-vavedinā� hṛdayāni |
]
174.1b1d.p. 26: केवलमभूमिभुनिजनो विभवानाम� � विषयोपभो� गृध्नव�
ह्रि घनान्युपाददत� �
[kevalamabhūmibhunijano vibhavānām | viṣayopabhoga gṛdhnavo
hri ghanānyupādadate |
]
1-
175.1b1d.p.224:--असंभाव्य [ṃb屹ⲹ]मानतया शिशुजनस्यापि हास्यरसवृद्धिः
हेतु शदृश� यच्च विशद [mānatayā śiśujanasyāpi hāsyarasavṛddhi�
hetu śadṛśa� yacca viśada
]
प्रतिभास मतिदीर्� का� मनुभूतमात्मनाप� शक्य ते
� श्रद्धातुम� �
[pratibhāsa matidīrgha kāla manubhūtamātmanāpi śakya te
na śraddhātum |
]
176.11•p.346: इह हि संसारसद्भत� समासादितावतारः स्वभाव-
विमलोऽपि जन्तुरके चै� जन्मनि दशावशे� दीपाङ्ङ्कु� इवान� कानि रूपान्तर�-
व्यनुभवत� � तदेतदमृत विश्वभूत� वस्तुरूपम् [iha hi saṃsārasadbhati samāsāditāvatāra� svabhāva-
vimalo'pi janturake caiva janmani daśāvaśena dīpāṅṅkura ivāne kāni rūpāntarā-
vyanubhavati | tadetadamṛta viśvabhūta� vasturūpam
]
1; p. 112: निसर्ग�
एव� निरङ� [nisargata
eva� nira�
]
कुशः पापकारी करी� व्यालो बलीयान् विधि बद्ध� ऽप� बुद्धि
मन्दिरनि निविडे� प्रज्ञाली� निगडेन विश्वग्र हो विचरति �
[kuśa� pāpakārī karība vyālo balīyān vidhi baddho 'pi buddhi
mandirani niviḍena prajñālīha nigaḍena viśvagra ho vicarati |
]
177.ibid.p.20: _समग्राण्यप� कारणान� � प्रागजन्� जनित कम्मदि�
क्षणनिरपेक्षणि फलमुपनयन्त� �
[samagrāṇyapi kāraṇāni na prāgajanma janita kammadiya
kṣaṇanirapekṣaṇi phalamupanayanti |
]

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