Tilakamanjari

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

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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
with the mincing step of a minuet. They were the victims of a convention (Kavisamaya) that sought in language a gaudy substitute for the thing instead of its close fitting garments and in the realm of pure poetry, where we look for lofty thought and vivid imagination, they were denied open vision and free soaring flights. They sang in a cage and not upon a branch. Though they wield language with such astonishing skill, they seldom work the miracles with it, that proclaim the divine poet. The most brilliant electric light is not sunshine.' Dr. Krishnamurthy quotes Bāņa the chief exponent of this latter staged muse.
सन्ति श्वान इवासंख्या: जातिभाजो गृहे गृहे।
उत्पादकाः न बहवः कवयः शरभाः इव।। Even Dhanapāla deserves to be quoted here
"Worthy of obeisance are those poets skilled in virtuosity of the muse, shorn of spite, who calculate the qualities as well as the faults of the (poets as well as the poetry).”
“That unrighteous being deserves to be kept away, who may take to the path of poetry, that is free from the faults of etymologies. Creating troubles he becomes a serpent owing to his being foremost in that." Whose words that don't even exhilarate the mind of even the dullard, brought to the sweetness of honey or brimming with sweet essence of lofty thoughts, are they really poets?"
Does that deserve the gnomon of a Kävya that does not bring low the faces as well as heads of the opponents on its very melody." The meanings applied to the compositions which are irreconcilable to the sentiments contained in the fine Kathās, become a source of enmity usually like the riches supplied to the pusillanimous."?
1. Essays in Sanskrit Criticism., pp. 203-204. p.5 JNVSE 2. HC. Intro. verse. 6. 3. ART 1: 210444ffagigi: 1
fagraf 999 JUIN TYCKT: 11 TM Intr. V. 8. P.16 Botad ed. 4. arifsari: : FAGIO 2: leaf an
3 gafas-Thrifa 1401411 Ibid. Intro. V. 9. P.16 Botad ed. 5. FIGHI TH d: #9 HR971
4646777 ocala: fa asform yfall Ibid. Intro. V. 11. P.18 Botad ed. 6. Foi asfa for all hafa fa mal
94445M atafut a ferits all Ibid. Intr. V. 12. p. 18 Botad ed. 17. Het 4pm fatereg fra:
Filarda Harief yr Renta: 11 Ibid. Intr. V. 18