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...
4.24. Character description of Priyamvada
Priyamvada, on the contrary, is a unhappy, though beloved, celestial consort of sensuously inconstant 304. Tilakamanjari,p.410(4-10). 306. ibid., p.408(3-9). 308. ibid.,p.410(20-22). / 305. ibid.,p.407(10ff.). / 307. ibid.,p.410(11-17).
953 Vaimanika god Sumali, 309, who deserts her to dally with another goddess Svayamprabha. She also builds a Jain temple of Lord Mahavira Jina on the Ratnakuta island in the Southern Ocean, and awaits the arrival of her beloved till her heavenly life-span is exhausted; but during the last moments of her life she loses faith in the promise of the omniscient Jain saint and as a result undergoes ■ numerous hardships in her next birth as Malayasundari. 311 of ■ course, her charitable good turns of building a Jain temple coupled with her abstinence in strict ascetic life and devout worship of Lord Mahavira stands in good stead in her next birth and ultimately enables her to get united with her beloved in the form of Samarakety.