Tilakamanjari

Author(s): Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications

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TILAKAMAÑJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA topic of discussion among the literary critics like Dr. S.K.De.' and Dr. Neeta Sharma.
Bāna has paid a lofty mead of encomium to the Kathā mode of Prose Kāvya in Kādambari and to ākhyāyikā in Harsacarita.
स्फुरत्कलालापविलासकोमला करोति रागं हृदि कौतुकाधिकम्। रसेन शय्यां स्वयमभ्युपागता कथा जनस्याभिनवावधूरिव। 'हरन्ति कं नोज्ज्वलदीपकोपमैर्नवैः पदार्थैरुपपादिता: कथाः। निरन्तरश्लेषघनाः सुजातयो महास्रजश्चम्पककुड्मलैरिव॥" 'उच्छ्वासान्तेऽप्यखिन्नास्ते येषां वक्त्रे सरस्वती। कथमाख्यायिकाकाराः न ते वन्द्याः कवीश्वराः॥' 'सुखप्रबोधललिता सुवर्णघटनोज्ज्वलैः।
शब्दैराख्यायिका भाति शय्येव प्रतिपादिकैः॥" Besides Rhetoricians like Bhāmah', Dandin have also dealt with this topic in detail. Dhanapāla has referred to Kādambarī and Harşākhyāyikā by virtue of which Bāna attained prominence
Regarding the characteristics of Kathā and Campū Dhanapāla says
"A Kathā palls the listeners with series of intermittent prose (narratives) while Campū, too, loses the charm of its story being preponderant in metrical forms."
Dr. S.K. De' after having examined the views of Bhāmah and Dandi along with those of Rudrata and those given in the Agni Purāna, goes to illustrate ākhyāyikā and Kathā as under:
1. Some Problems of Sanskrit Poetics pp. 65-79. 2. Bana Bhatta- A Study. pp. 17-18. 3. Kādambari Introductory Verses 8.9. 4. Harşacarita. Introductory Verses 10.20. 5. Kāvyalānkāra. p. 19. by Devendra Natha Sharma, Bihar Rashtrabhasha Parishad, Patna
1968. 6. Kāvyādarśa. 11, 12-15. With Jīvānanda Vidyasāgar tīkā, edited by V.Narayana Ayyar,
1964 7. कादम्बरी सहोदर्यां सुधया वैबुधे हृदि।
हर्षाख्यायिकया ख्याति बाणोऽब्धिरिव लब्धवान्। TM Verse Intr. 27. 8. अश्रान्तगद्यसन्ताना श्रोतृणां निर्विदे कथा।
जहाति पद्यप्रचुरा चम्पूरपि कथारसम्। TM Verse 17. 9. Some Problems of Sanskrit Poetics. p.78.