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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DHANAPALA AS A PROSE WRITER
'अन्तरितदर्शने च तस्मिरणरणकदूयमानः शून्य इव पार्थिवः स्थित्वा मुहूर्तं हर्म्यशिखरादवततार। निर्वर्तितमाध्याह्निकविधिश्च तत्कालकृतसन्निधीनां गुरूणां बान्धवानां बुद्धिसचिवानां च यथावृत्तं सर्वमेव मुनिवृत्तान्तमाख्यत् देवताराधनविषये चापृच्छत्।
उच्छिद्यमानभरतवंशदर्शननित्योद्विग्नैश्च तैरालोच्य देवतागृहमकारयत्। तत्र चातिप्रशस्तेऽहनि..... भगवत्याः श्रियः प्रतिकृति यथाविधि प्रतिष्ठाप्य प्रतिपन्ननैष्ठिकोचितक्रियो मुनिप्रदर्शितेन क्रमेण प्रतिदिनमुपासांचक्रे तथाहि प्रातरेवोत्थाय प्रस्थितः परिचारकैरनुगम्यमानः गत्वा कृत्रिमादिपरिसरसरिति गृहीतदन्तधावनो निर्वर्तितस्नानजपविधिः.. मुद्रितमुखो मुखोद्गीर्णमुखरवारिस्रोतोभिः कनककुम्भैः सुचिरमेनामभ्याषिञ्चत्। एणनाभिकर्पूरकणसन्तर्पितामोदेन च... समुपविष्टः.. पुष्टार्थाभिः स्तुतिभिरतिचिरं तुष्टाव। समापितमन्त्रविधिश्चातिक्रान्तै कियत्यपि समये विनिर्गत्य देवतागृहाद्..... गुरुजनं ववन्दे। विहितमध्यन्दिनावश्यकविधिश्चापराह्नसमयानुज्ञातदर्शनेन सर्वदर्शनग्रन्थार्थवेदिना विद्वज्जनेन सार्धं तैस्तैः कथालापैस्तस्थौ। उपस्थिते च प्रदोषसमये तेनैव विधिना श्रियः पूजोपचारं चक्रे। अन्यदिवसेष्वप्येतदेवान्वतिष्ठत्।।
all these form the summary types of narratives.
Like Bāņa Dhanapāla, too, does not allow a topic to pass unless he has got to squeeze no more out of it. He hardly knows where and when to stop except in certain passages where he has to provide the links to the chains of events occurring and recurring in the lives of the characters whose actions and reactions to the natural psychic situations rotate like a wheel, simply with a view to clearing off any types of confusions likely to mar the smooth sailing of the subsequent threads of the plot.
Performing his daily routines of adoration to Śrī, he saw one day having gone to the shrine of the Siddhas known as Sakrāvatāra, a Vaimānika who was getting down in his front. The entire array of qualifying epithets strung into separate sentences inter-linked properly, form the scene type of narrative. The way he welcomed him forms the summary type. The Vaimānika, too, seeing him fascinated by him spoke to him recognising him as Meghavāhana, etc. illustrates the scene type. The way the Vaimānika introduced himself as Jvalanaprabha etc. and the way he took king Meghavāhana to be an incarnation of Jinavșsa named Vrsabha, the Primeval god (Adideva), the way he sought permission to go to the chief island named Nandīśvara brought into being by the ocean named Nandīśvara etc. go to illustrate the scene type of narrative which is followed by the descriptive mode of narration comprising of the nagarī named Rativiśālā which lay in a state of be wailment and mourning. The narratives containing the presentation of the necklace of the said description, the subsequent
1. TM Vol. I, p. 103. Para 14. LL. 6-8 Botad. 2. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 103. Para 14. LL. 6-8 Botad. Ibid. pp. 103-104. p. 103. LL. 8-9. p. 1-4
LL. 2-3 para 13. 2. Ibid. pp. 104-106. para 14. p. 104. LL. 3,4,5p. 105 LL. 1-8p. 106. LIII-3.
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