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 1 - The Author (biography of Dhanapala)
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Thus, in Dhanapala we have had a mixed personality
of a proud pundit, a hot debater, a shrewd court-poet
quite at home in a luxurious royal palace in a regal
capital or a tough military expedition both on the land
and the sea throughout length and breadth of India and
abroad, a well-versed Brahmin and a staunch Jain
householder with his ultimate resort tox a Jain temple
and extremely full of the milk of human kindness coupled
with religious generosity.
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