Tilakamanjari

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

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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
easily intelligible to the common reader. The vocabulary is so rich and practical that an ordinary urchin roving about the town can make out the import contained therein. Acts VI to X are all replete with the piquant narratives which are quite attractive and charming from the point of view of vigorous action. Kālidāsa's prose is equally effective and polished marked by the special quality of Irony about the activities of the dramatise personae. The general poctic elements like figures of speech and excellences have been employed with proper restraint. The ornate prose Kāvya comprising of Kathā, Ākhyāyikā and Campū represented by the works of Dandin, Subandhu, Bāņa, Dhanapāla, Soddhala, Odayadeva Vādībhasimha, Trivikarmabhatta and Somadeva-contains the maturer form of prose style which is highly involved and full of three modes of diction, long compounded, short compounded and compoundless ones known to rhetoricians as Utkalikā or Tandaka, Cūrņaka and Aviddha. This fact, however, easily gives a clue to the situation that many more romance works were written before these mature works came into prominence. These became so popular that they eclipsed the very existence of all their predecessors to which references have been made by the earlier as well as the later writers.
Akhyāyikā has been referred by Kātyāyana in his vārttika on a Sūtra of Pāṇinī's and Patañjali on Pāṇinī iv-2-60.
लुबाख्यायिकाभ्यो बहुलम् आख्यानाख्यायिकेतिहासपुराणेभ्यश्च' According to Kautilya (1.5.14. p.7) Itihāsa carries within its fold'पुराणमितिवृत्तमाख्याकोदाहरणम्'
out of these the annotator Shri R.P. Kangle says about ākhyāyikā that it is ‘divyamanusyādicaritam.'
Patañjali' refers to Yavakrīta, Priyamgava and Yayāti as instances of ākhyāna and Vāsavadattā, Sumanottarā and Bhai-marathi as those of ākhyāyikā. All these works are unfortunately gone to oblivion. We also know little about the Cārumati of Vararuci from which a stanza has been quoted in Bhoja's Sủngāraprakāśa; even Šūdrakakathā perhaps a 'Kathā' by Rāmila and Somila referred to by Jalhaņa and Bhoja or Tarangavati of
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tifata:, 145fam, T :, 31ef4 arachi: HTTP:ll - Mahābh. IV. 2.60. Vol. II, p. 421. MLBD Delhi, 1967. अधिकृत्य कृते ग्रन्थे इत्याख्यायिकाभ्यो बहुलं लूब्वक्तव्यः । AHOGHI ATTERT 7 a vafa erfil - Ibid., IV. 3.87. p.458.