Tilakamanjari

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

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DHANAPALA AS A PROSE WRITER
comprehension like a couch that shines well being beautiful owing to its capability of waking up the person at case, being effulgent owing to a counterpane of well-textured placement.'
In contrast Dhanapala says- "people turn their faces away from prose, moved by fright, on account of its prolixity of descriptions and attaining to the state of a forest in the form of unbroken Dandakas i.e., lengthy sentences, as if from a tiger that is pied hued and takes to the impenetrable Dandaka forest and move sover."
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"Even though couched in series of syllables attractive for the people and terse and profuse with excessive puns, a composition does not attain to laudation like a script that consists of well connected syllables and is attractive like the unctuous collyrium and is dense with excessive emulsiveness." "A Katha palls the listeners being a series of unending prose." "A Campù also deserts its taste for the narrative being abundant in versimilitude."
Hence Dhanapala is all praise for Bana's diction and shows a marked inaptitude for the existing trend of verbose style in prose diction which to a greater extent he has tried to shun in his work and has followed the middle path between Baṇa and Odayadeva Vādībhasimha whose Gadyacintamani is the true replica of the characteristics enunciated by Dhanapala. The very fact that Dhanapala has ignored the name of Subandhu gives a clear clue to the fact that he had a marked distaste for his diction and keeping in view that once he has made these remarks of considering prose as a tiger infesting the Dandakaranya in the form of sesquipedalia verb a of Keith's Conception. B. LITERARY TENDENCIES OF THE AGE Circumstances, characteristics and achievements of the Age.
With a view to understanding fully the literary tendencies of the age i.e. the circumstances, characteristics and the achievements of the age it becomes absolutely necessary to study the conditions under which the classical prose Kavya originated and the environments under which it grew to its fuller size.
1. HC Intro. verse 20. P. 14, JNVSE सुरवप्रबोधललिता सुवर्णघटनीज्ज्वलैः । शब्दैराख्यायिका भाति शट्येव प्रतिपादकैः ॥
2. TM Intro. verse 15. p. 20 Botad ed.
अरण्यदण्डकारण्यभाजः प्रचुरवर्णकात् व्याघ्रादिव भयाघ्रातो गद्याद् व्यावर्तते जनः ॥
3. Ibid. Intro. verses 16. 17. P. p.21 Botad ed.