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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
(Tilakamañjari) was composed, abounding as it did in the sentiment of wonder.'
Siyaka II alias Harsa being issueless for a long period adopting Väkpati Muñja as his son and later on getting his own son Sindhurāja was perhaps before the eyes of Dhanapāla who fabricated the tale of king Meghavāhana of Ayodhyā, the great scion of Ikşvāku race who failed to beget a scion through Madirāvati and got it later on through some propitiatory rite, naming him Harivāhana who on his own part got a foster brother in Samaraketu the prince of the Simhalas, son of Candraketu both being consecrated to the two major sub-divisions of the kingdom of Meghavāhana as the diacritical representatives of the supreme overlord who had subjugated the subsidiary vassals as a Dharmavijayi.
The flourishing cconomic conditions of Ayodhyā, the capital town of Northern Košalas and Kāñcī, the capital of Daksiņāpatha may covertly allude to the flourishing economic conditions of the capital town of the Paramāra rulers Sīyaka-Harșa, Vākpati Muñja, Sindhurāja and Bhoja etc.
Dhanapāla has referred to Madhyadeśa having its chief town as Sāṁkāsya, the parent's home of Dhanapāla, identified with modern Sankiša, a village in the Farrukhabad district of the U.P., situated 36 miles north by west from Kudārkot, 11 miles south-east from Aliganj in the Azamnagar Pargana of the Etawah district and 40 miles north-north-east from Etawah.
“Sri Dhanapāla, the Brāhmaṇa, composed this kathā who was eulogised in the very court by Sri Muñja the ocean of all the lores that it was the very Sarasvatī or Goddess of learning."" Or Śrī Muñja baptised Śrī Dhanapāla as the person bearing title 'Sarasvati'. These words amply justify the point that Dhanapāla wrote for the entertainment of Bhoja and at the instance of Muñja.
Ayodhyā, the capital of Northern Kosalas was refulgent with righteous and bright-complexioned or brilliant Varņas (three orders of society standing as it did having adorned the central part of the Bhāratavarsa." It
1. नि:शेषवाङ्मयविदोऽपि जिनागमोक्ताः श्रोतुं कथाः समुपजातकुतूहलस्य।
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