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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
Of the Lakes Dhanapāla has mentioned Mānasa,' Padmahrada and Adrs tapāra as the main figures. He has also referred to three lakes associated with the three Kulācalas Vindhya, Suktimat and Malaya known as Kesari, Mahāpadma“ Tigiñcha (fafii549) and at another place to the huge lakes (mahāpuskariņī) beautiful with triplefold rows of steps made of expansive bejewelled stone-slabs splashed by the surges of the sweet and limpid water redolent and cool with the juice of Pundra sugarcane, having shapes circular like the dimensions of the Jambūdvīpa, encircling on all sides the sixteen huge mountains known as Dadhimukhas etc. Mānasa-Sarovara, according to B. C. Law is situated in the Kailāśa mountain in western Tibet." King Vibhrāja repaired this lake. The lotus grove associated with the Padma mahāhrada situated on the peak of the mountain of snow i.e. Himālaya has been alluded to explicitly by Dhanapāla. The huge lake named Padma has also been called the silvery mirror of the array of groves on the peak of the mountain of snow i.e., Himālaya. Padma and other lakes have been deemed situated on the crests of the Kulādris.
Dr. B. C. Law quoting The Jambūdivappannati remarks that there were tyo lakes, each called Mahāpadmahrada, one connected with the western Himālayan range (Kșudra Himavanta) and the other connected with the Eastern Himālayan range (Mahā Himavanta). The Himālayan lake called Chaddanta was 50 leagues long and 50 leagues broad. This lake contained white and red lotuses and white lilies and white esculent lilies.
Of the two lakes connected with three Kulācalas Vindhya, Suktimat and Malaya, Kesari, Mahāpadam may be the same as discussed above, Kulādricūlāhradas seems to be a repetition of the fact discussed above.
1. TM Vol. I. pp. 109, 111, 147, Vol. II p. 181, Vol. III p. 12, 143, Vol. I p. 81, Vol. III p.
75, Sm ed. p. 391, Vol. I p. 61, Vol. III p. 77, Sm. ed. p. 373. 2. TM Vol. I. p. 154, Vol. III p. 14, Sm. ed. p. 376. Sm. ed. p. 421. 3. TM Vol. III. pp. 69-75, Sm. ed. pp. 418, 412, 408, 394, 383. 4. galleria fua dokhelyafafegua4 TM Vol. III. p. 74. 5. दधिमुखभिधानमहाधराधरेन्द्रषोडशकपरिक्षेपाणीनां जम्बूद्वीपप्रमाणपरिमण्डलाकृतीनां पुण्ड्रेक्षुरसशिशिर
सुरभिस्वच्छस्वादुसलिलकल्लोलास्फालितविशालमणिशिलासोपानपंक्तित्रितयरमणीयानां महापुष्करिणीनाम्
TM Vol. I. p. 116. 6. HGAI p. 131. 7. fenfifter : TEHEEGI E I Vol. III p. 14. 8. Hafta ahfRTHAGYU..... ERA PETET I TM Vol. I. p. 154. 9. TINH HIf welệ 4 TM Sm. ed. p. 421. 10. HGAI p. 98.
