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.
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As a friend she takes compassion on her celestial frie
end Priyangusundari and entrusts the care of both the
Jain temples of Priyangusundari and Priyaṃvadā to his Yakṣa
attendant Mahodara.304
(xi) PRIYANGU SUNDARĪ :-
PRIYAṂGUSUNDARĪ
Priyangusundari is a beloved celestial consort
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of the Vaimānika god Jvalanaprabha who painfully leaves her
305 as their heavenly life-duration is about to be exhausted.
She sets out in search of her beloved and when promised
about the union with him, she immediately retires to Mount
Ekaśṛṅga, builds a grand temple of Lord Rṣabha Jina with a
306 surrounding garden and awaits the arrival of the god.
When, at last the latter does not arrive, she does not lose
faith in the promise of the saint, and is as a result born
as Tilakamañjarī, the daughter of the Vidyadhara Emperor
Cakrasena.
307 As a fidel wife she developes a peculiar aversion to
308 males in her next birth, and is attracted only by Hariva-
hana who is really her celestial beloved Jvalanaprabha born
as a human prince.
(xii) PRIYAṂVADĀ :-
Priyamvadā, on the contrary, is a unhappy, thou-
gh beloved, celestial consort of sensuously inconstant
304. TM(N),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).
