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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( 6 ) तन्वंग्या स्त्वमिति प्रसादविशदं नासीति खेदालसं
चतुद्वारेपथावतारिणि जने व्यापारयन्त्या मुहुः ।
हर्षातिप्रभवाः प्रतिदाणभुवः स्वेदाम्बुदा हज्वरे
नेत्राम्भः कणिकाः पयोधरतटे पुष्यन्ति शुष्यन्ति च
[ tanvaṃgyā stvamiti prasādaviśadaṃ nāsīti khedālasaṃ
catudvārepathāvatāriṇi jane vyāpārayantyā muhuḥ |
harṣātiprabhavāḥ pratidāṇabhuvaḥ svedāmbudā hajvare
netrāmbhaḥ kaṇikāḥ payodharataṭe puṣyanti śuṣyanti ca
] SMV. xxxxiv, 28
(7) दृष्टवा वाक्पतिराजस्य शक्तिं गांडवध दुराम् ।
बुध्दिः साध्वसरु देव वाचं न प्रतिपद्यते ।।
[ dṛṣṭavā vākpatirājasya śaktiṃ gāṃḍavadha durām |
budhdiḥ sādhvasaru deva vācaṃ na pratipadyate ||
] SMVn iv. 63.
(8) प्राज्यप्रभावः प्रभवो धर्मस्या स्तरजस्तमाः ।
[ prājyaprabhāvaḥ prabhavo dharmasyā starajastamāḥ |
] 6 मुक्तात्मानः शिवं नैमिरन्येपि ददतां जिनाः । ।
[ muktātmānaḥ śivaṃ naimiranyepi dadatāṃ jināḥ | |
] SMV. ii.96.;
(9) मन्ये बृहत्कथाम्भोधेबिन्दुमादाय निर्मिताः ।
तेनेतरकथा कन्था न विमान्ति तदग्रतः
[ manye bṛhatkathāmbhodhebindumādāya nirmitāḥ |
tenetarakathā kanthā na vimānti tadagrataḥ
] SMV. iv. 51.
( 10 ) वक्रोक्त्या भतृमैण्ठस्य वहन्त्या सृणिरूपताम्
[ vakroktyā bhatṛmaiṇṭhasya vahantyā sṛṇirūpatām
] 8 I g
आविध्दा इव धुन्वन्ति मूधाने कविकुंजराः ।।
[ āvidhdā iva dhunvanti mūdhāne kavikuṃjarāḥ ||
] ☐
LO
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SMV. iv. 61.
5. Quoted from the TM, cf. TM(N), p.391 with the reading
"pratiksana-bhavat" in c.
6. cf.TM(N),intro. vs. 31.
7. TM(N), Intro. vs. 2 has the readings "dadātaṃ nirvṛtā-
tmā na ādyo 'nye 'pi mudan jināh" in c and d. The readings
of the SMV tallies verbatim with those of Bhoja who has
quoted this verse twice in his SKB. cf.SKB(RJ),p.116
and 224.
8. TM(N), Intro. vs. 21 has the readings "samskṛtāh" in b,
"tene tarakathāb kanthāh" in c and "pratibhāntii_in_c.
9. It looks as if this verse could have been one of the
introductory verses of the TM. But it is not found in
any ms. of the TM.
