Tilakamanjari

SR No.: 022659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 504
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMAÑJARI
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This version of Dhanapāla shows that Sakrāvatāra was a shrine of the Siddhas situated on the premises of the garden on the outskirts of the capital.
At another place he says referring to Meghavāhana
Having entered the middle of the Sakrāvatāra shrine and worshipped for long the adorable primeval god and having reached his own residence and performed the evening worship of Srī with excessive devotion he sat there in meditation.'
Yet at another place the shore of the Sarayū has been described as charming being close to the garden connected with the sakrāvatāratirtha (according to the commentator).?
"Sakrāvatārāditīrtha” refers to the place as a venue of pilgrimage.
Gangāditīrtha referred to by Dhanapāla may be taken to mean the holy places of pilgrimage established on the confluences of Gangā and Yamunā, Gangā and Sarayū.
Dhanapāla has mentioned a number of forest people like Kirātas, Ābhīras, Šabaras,' Kīkațas, Nişādas,' Bhillas, etc. along with" Huņas,12 Mlecchas also known as Nāhalas, Lubdhakas (hunters) and various classes of Devas,'S Asuras, 16 also known as daityas and yātudhānas,
1. प्रविश्य च शक्रावतारयतनमध्यमाराध्य भगवन्तमतिचिरमादिदेवमागत्य सदनमुपपाद्य भक्त्यातिशयेन श्रियः सायन्तनी
affaty hafifeaftan HI TM Vol. I p. 125. 2. Y EHAR uite Heal: RHI TM Vol. II p. 226. 3. TM Sm. ed. p. 364. 4. KKB by Dr. B. S. Upadhyaya Part II p. 167. 5. TM Vol. II p. 291, 182, Sm. ed. 297, 290, Vol. III p. 138. 6. Ibid. Vol. II p. 242. 7. Ibid. Vol. II p. 316, Vol. III p. 68, 138, Sm. ed. p. 372, 353, TM pp. 64-65 Vol. III. 8. Ibid. Vol. II pp. 270, 298. 9. Ibid. Vol. III pp. 63, 84, Sm. ed. p. 415, Vol. II p. 289. 10. Ibid. Vol. III p. 68. 11. Ibid. Vol. III p. 33. 12. Ibid. Vol. III p. 81. 13. Ibid. Vol. III p. 63. 14. Ibid. Vol. III p. 65. 15. Ibid. Vol. I p. 116. 16. Ibid. Vol. I p. 107, Vol. III p. 81. (Sura)