Tilakmanjari

SR No.: 001574
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal Mahakavi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 474
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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INTRODUCTION
I The Previous Editions of the TM
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The Sanskrit text of the Tilakamanjari of Kavi Dhanapala of Dhara was first published in full in 1903 A.D. by the Nirnay Sagara Press, Bombay. It was edited by Pandits Bhavadatta Shastri and K. B. Parab in the Kavyamala Series (No. 85), and was issued in a single volume of three hundred fifty pages. The second edition, TM(N), published by them in 1938 A.D., was more or less a reprint preserving intact almost all the hundreds of mistakes and misprints of the first edition. The publication of at fairly correct edition with three commentaries, viz., Santyacarya's Tippanaka, Padmasagara's Vyakhya and Vijayalavanyasuri's Vivṛti, was started under the patronage of Sheth Shri Ishwardas Mulachandra from Ahmedabad in the year 1941 A.D. in Shri Vijayanemisari Granthamala (No. 27), but somehow it did not proceed beyond the introductory verses and a part of the first sentence, i.e., covering pages 1 to 9 of the for TM (N). The work, with the two of the above commentaries, was again taken up for publication in V.Samh 2008 (i.c. 1952 A.D.) under the auspices of Shri Vijayalavanyasuri Jaana Mandira, Botad (Saurashtra); this time the Vyakhya of Padmasagara was dropped. Unfortunately, the learned author of the Paraga-vivṛti, Shri Vijayalavanyasuri, left for the yonder world before the work was published in full.2 The incomplete edition published so far covered in three volumes almost two-thirds of the complete text of the work, i.e., covering the text portion upto two hundred twenty-six out of total number of four hundred twenty-eight pages of the TM(N).
The readings of the incomplete text published in the Botad Edition, TM(P), are mainly based on a copy of the first edition of the Nirnaya Sagara Press, as corrected by Muni Shri Punyavijayaji.3 But the editors of the Botad Edition have, in a few places taken liberty with the original text, which they have sought to correct,
No less than twelve notices of manuscripts are found in various Lists of Mss., and in the Jinaratnakoś edited by Professor H, D. Velankar. The oldest, and hence the most important, palm-leaf ms. dated V. Sam. 1130 (i.e.. 1074 A.D.)-written within about fifty years after the actual composition of the work by the poet, has been preserved by Muni Shri Punyavijayaji in fragments, and that too in such a ruined condition, that not much help can be expected of it for compiling a critical text of the TM. The original text of the TM is said to have been revised, at the 2. I was informod personally by his disciple Shri Viajyadaksasuri that the author of the Paragavivrti composed the commentary on the complete text of the TM.
3. The revered Muniji told me that about five or six persons, himself included among them, corrected their copies of the 1st Edn of the N, S. P. about seventy years back in the presence of Muni Shri Jinavijayaji. One of these copies is with the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, and another one with Dr. A. N. Jani, Professor of Sanskrit, M. S. University, Baroda. Both these revered scholars were kind enough to lend their copies to me.
4. cf. JRK pp. 159-160.
5. See the photostat printed herewith,