Tilakamanjari

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

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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
All these easily allude to the variety of prose existent before the times of Dhanapāla.
"स्वपदापहारशंकितशतक्रतुप्रार्थितेन शततमक्रतुवांछाविच्छेदार्थमिव पार्थिवानामिक्ष्वाकूणामुत्पादिता प्रजापतिना ..... मज्जत् (माद्यत्) कौशलविलासिनी नितम्बास्फालनस्फारिततरंगया.....कपिल कोपानलेन्धनीकृत सगरतनयस्वर्गवार्तामिव प्रष्टुं भागीरथीमुपस्थितया सरिता सरय्वाख्याकृतपर्यन्तसंख्या सर्वाश्चर्यनिधानमुत्तरकोशलेष्वयोध्येति यर्थाथाभिधाना नगरी। ___ असावस्य सकलस्यापि भारतवर्षस्य चूडालंकारभूता गौत्रराजधानी रघुदिलीपदशरथप्रभृतीनां नराधिपानामयोध्याभिधानां पुरी प्रधानभूता सर्वनगरीणाम्।''
all these display Dhanapāla's great indebtedness to the author of Rāmāyaṇa. Introductory verses 26, 27 and 30 referring to Bāņa the paramount sovereign of prose comp sition making other poets shorn of their prides, his censure of Māgha's talent, (verse 28) praise of Bhāravi's musc, culogium of Rājasekhara's words all go to illustrate that these authors above all others had cnormous impact upon the mind of Dhanapāla who while writing his Tilakamañjarī utilised all the qualities imbibed by these predecessors. Kālidāsa's identity of nature with human being, Bhāravi's arthagaurava, Māgha's rich wealth of social and cultural materials, Bāna's threefold prose style laden with cosmopolitan equipage of the world, Rājasekhara's ubiquitous knowledge of the world around all these seem to have a deep impact on Dhanapāla as gleaned through the narrative of Tilakamañjarī.
That is why we find in Bāņa
A Kathā compared to a newly-wedded wife who out of attachment comes to the couch of her own accord generating passion in greater intensity being pliant through dalliance and fascinating sweet indistinct murmuringspunningly the Kathā being graceful owing to dalliance of coruscating sweet indistinct expressions and brimming with sentiment, it creates interest in the mind of the person who goes through it (and).
An ākhyāyikā shines well with words forming the subject matter, being brilliant having been nuanced with fine syllables, charming owing to easy
1. fagufu ac, SR) FR
anfara TÙ WARCTI ERI: AN TM. Intr. v. 37. 2. Ibid. Vol. I p. 43. LL. 1-2 3. Ibid. Vol. 1 p. 47. LL. 1-3 4. Ibid. p. 55. L.3. 5. Ibid. Vol. I, p. 94. LL. 1-2. 6. Ibid. Vol: I p. 6-28 Botad ed. 7. Kād. Intro. 8. P. 5 CSS Varanasi, 1953.