Tilakmanjarisara

SR No.: 002611
Original Sutra Author: Pallipal Dhanpal
Author: N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 146
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 7 MB

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the TMS in view of the fact that though actual number of verses counted in it are 1205, the concluding verses of every canto-being in longer metres can total up to the figure of 1223 'gramthas.' Again the note in the JRK that "this is published by Hemacandra Sabha, Patan; cf. Patan Cat. I. Intro. p. 50", is merely a repetition of mistake in the Patan Catalogue I due to a mix-up of the details. It is the TMKS of the Svetambara Pandit Lakṣmidhara which was published in A. D. 1919 by the Hemacandra Sabha, Patan. A letter from Shri Trikamlal Fatecand, the Secretary of the Hemacandrācārya Sabha, Patan, has finally nailed this point by his categorical denial as to their ever having published the TMS. The work has also been mentioned by Prof. H. R Kapadia. But. more delails are given by Shri Nathuram Premi" in a collection of his articles-entitled "Jaina Sahitya Aur Itihasa" in Hindi.
III The Author
The author of this work, TMS,is Dhanapala of the Pallipala family. Muni Shri Jinavijayaji and, following him, Shri Nathuram Premi have preferred the Prakrit variant of the family name 'Pallivala,'10 The author of the TMS has fortunately given a few autobiograghical details in the epilogue to his work.11
It is, thus, known that the father of the author of the TMS was a poet named Amana, born in the wellknown Pallipala family of Anahillapura (Patana), the capital of the Solanki Dynasty of the Western Calukyas, i.e. Cavḍās, of Gujarat. He is referred to as having composed an epic poem entitled the 'Nemicaritam.' His elder brother Anantapala wrote a treatise on Spaşta Patiganita. Unfortunately there is no reference to, or mention of, Amana's work in any of the subsequent anthologies, or even in some of the histories of the Jain Sanskit literature. Even the painstaking researches of such eminent scholars like Shri M. D. Desai, Shri Nathuram Premi, Dr. Hiralal Jain, Prof. H. R. Kapadia and Dr. A. N. Upadhye have not been able to raise the curtain of obscurity which has covered up the personality of this learned Pallipala family. Nor have we so far come across the above mentioned 'Patiganita' 12 and the 'Nemicaritam' of Anantapala. It is only the TMS of Dhanapala that has preserved the names of these members of this scholarly family. Even Dhanapala himself has not given any further information regarding his own other literary works, if any. Most probably this was his maiden attemept at embarking upon the literary voyage.
7. No. 25/2024 dated 13-1-1968 from the Hemacandracarya Sabha, Pataṇa,
8. JSSI. p. 19.
9. JSAI, p. 470-71.
10, ibid.
11. TMS. Epilogue Verses 1-5.
12. A work on Arithmatic according to Prof, H. R. Kapadia, cf. JSSI (K) p. 199.