1. Discovery of Dhanapala’s imitation of Bana

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: BANA AND DHANAPALA: A STUDY IN CONTRAST—(1) DISCOVERY OF DHANAPALA'S IMITATION OF BANA—The credit for discovering an imitator of Bana in in Dhananala must be given to Dr. A.B.Keith, whose words were later on paraphrased by Dr. M. Krishnamachariar and Dr. S.K.De. Dr. Krishnamachariar remarked that the Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala "is a regular image of Kadambari and every occasion of note in Kadambari finds a parallel here", and that "Dhanapala was a successful follower of Bana". Dr. De onthen went further and and asserted that Bana found an imitator in Dhanapala who could copy most of his hyperbolic mannerisms, but, however, could not reproduce much of his poetic excellences. The problem has been further discussed in a very shallow 5 manner by Dr. Harindrabhushan Jain and somewhat seriously and sincerely by Dr. Jagga Jagannath Pathak, and Prof. Amaranath Pandey. $ 7 6 4 Taking their clue obviously from the above remarks of of Dr. Keith, Dr. Krishnamachariar and Dr. De, both Dr. Harindrabhushan Jain and Dr. Jagannath Pathak have sought to 1. A History of Sanskrit Literature,p.331. / 2. A History of Classical Sanskrit Literature,p.475. / 3.A History of Sanskrit Literature,p.430. 4. The learned scholar's shallow treatment is revealed in (P.T.).)

1020 pick up a few parallelisms from Bana's Kadambari and Dhanapala's Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala and have confirmed the conclusion of the veterans, adding further that Dhanapala imitates Bana not only in the matter of the plot of the narrative, but alsp in the scheme of characters, in characterization, in style, in disposition of the figures of speech and in delineation of 8 poetic relish (rasa) too. Prof. Amaranath Pandey, on the other hand, has somewhat come near the fringe of the bull's- -eye, when he endeavours to equate various incidents and motifs both from the Kad. and the Harshacharita of Bana with those in the Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala, and quotes a number of passages in which Bana's influence on Dhanapala is apparent. The problem needs to be mooted again inview of the study of Dhanapala's Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala in the foregoing chapters.