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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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
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was of a tranquil disposition and was a scion born in the line age of Sagara. He was endowed with enormous dignity and his prowess sprang from the adventures of battles. In radiance he even outpassed the fire. It i.e. the radiance) even made him a compeer to Nala and Prthu. He was wont to wield his sword in battle and was having his disposition amenable to suavity.
He was not atrocious towards the supplicants and had a naturally ruddy glow on his feet as well as hands. He alleviated the anguish of the earth (i.e. the Universe) by protection and not by dalliance or frivolity and was not an abductor of women for the sake of lewdness. He did not have the tendency of kinship towards the wives of others and was equally averse to embracing the wives of others but was addicted to hospitalities. He had sermons administered to him through his religious preceptor by virtue of his fervour not that he had his command conformed to by callosity. He was charitable enough to devote his interests and never had a knack to disparage the elders by the pride of his intellect. During extirpation of foes he used to carry aloft his bow and never used revilious tongue while deliberating over certain topic. He had sanctified the lord of the triad of worlds by his conduct gone to the upper world, being quite elevated owing to his having gratified the people once for all by means of the fame earned by the performance of sacrifices and endowed as he was with virtues such as compassion, complaisance etc. He had circumambulated the interiors of the Universe by means of his series of virtues. His fame and chivalry were both charming as well as awe-inspiring. Like Acyuta (i.e. Vişnu) who carried conch and the quoit on his hands, he bore the marks of conch and the quoit on his palms (indicative of paramountsy). The fortunes of the opponents arrayed in rows came to woo him as their consort brought on to him by the portress in the form of his political acumen (Dandanīti). His intellect had the knack of discrimination about right and wrong (lit. fit to be acquired and fit to be discarded) attuned as it were to the cadence of the interpretation of all the scriptures on polity. He was a specialist in all the six schools of philosophy and had attained proficiency in all the branches of learning. He was skilled in the employment of the six expedients of state craft (Sandhi, Vigraha, Yāna, Āsana, Dvaidhībhāva, Samāśraya or Samsraya). He could understand
1. सौजन्यपरतन्त्रवृत्तिरप्यसौजन्ये निषण्णः नलपृथुप्रभोऽप्यनलपृथुप्रभः समिद्व्यतिकरस्फूरितप्रभावोऽप्यकृशानुभावोपेतः, सगरान्वयप्रभवोऽप्यमृतशीतलप्रकृतिः, शत्रुघ्नोऽपि विश्रुतकीर्तिः, अशेषशक्त्युपेतोऽपि
45744RER07274:, Tarafa fafateraf sequin: 1 Ibid. Vol. I. pp. 62. LL. 3-4. p. 63. LL. 1-2.