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.
Appendix 1 - The oldest and the other manuscripts of the Tilakamanjari
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(3) श्रुत्वा त्वां सहसा गतं निजपुरा त्त्रा सेन निर्गच्छतां
शत्रूणामवरो धर्नर्जललवन स्यन्दनश्यत्पुटाः [ śrutvā tvāṃ sahasā gataṃ nijapurā ttrā sena nirgacchatāṃ
śatrūṇāmavaro dharnarjalalavana syandanaśyatpuṭāḥ ] 1
शुभे सद्मनि पल्लविन्युपवने वाप्यां नवाम्भोरुहि
क्रीडाद्री च सशाद्वले विवलितग्री वैवमुक्ता दृशः ।।
[ śubhe sadmani pallavinyupavane vāpyāṃ navāmbhoruhi
krīḍādrī ca saśādvale vivalitagrī vaivamuktā dṛśaḥ ||
] 6 Sd.Krn.vs.1577, p.425.
3 In his sūktimuktāvali Jahlana (1257 A.D.) quotes the
following verses as Dhanapāla's :-
(4) क्षाणां भूरिधानां त्रितमधिपतिना प्रस्फुरद भी मता रं
स्कारं नेत्रानलेन प्रसमनियमिताच्चापमीनध्वजेन
रामायतं पुरारेः कुमुदशुचि लसन्नीलसूत्री वमंग
प्लावगं सैन्यमन्यद्दशवदनशिरच्छेदहेतुः श्रियं वः [ kṣāṇāṃ bhūridhānāṃ tritamadhipatinā prasphurada bhī matā raṃ
skāraṃ netrānalena prasamaniyamitāccāpamīnadhvajena
rāmāyataṃ purāreḥ kumudaśuci lasannīlasūtrī vamaṃga
plāvagaṃ sainyamanyaddaśavadanaśiracchedahetuḥ śriyaṃ vaḥ ] 11
SMV. ii.18, as illustrating the
"Hara-vānarayoh slesah" ( under "Sivasyāngam") and
as quoted in Rāmacaritam p. 331.
(5) केवलोऽपि स्फुरन्वमणः करोति विपदा कवीन् ।
किं पुनः क्लृप्तसंधानः पुलिन्दकृतसन्निधिः
[ kevalo'pi sphuranvamaṇaḥ karoti vipadā kavīn |
kiṃ punaḥ klṛptasaṃdhānaḥ pulindakṛtasannidhiḥ
] 4 11
A
SMV iv. 66.
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3. This verse is ascribed to some "Dhanapati" by Śrīdhara.
But it is really Dhanapāla's, as it occurs in the TM as
the introductory verse No. 46 with the variant readings
"ya" in a, "prasyandi - timyat-putāh" in b, and "muhur-
muhur" in d. The same has been quoted by Jahlana, cf.
SMV. 1xxxxvii, 60.
4. cf. TM(N). Intro. vs. 26.
