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TILAKAMANJARI OF DHANAPĀLA
Rājamārtaṇḍa, a commentary on Patanjali's Yogasūtra, Sarasvatīkaṇṭ habharaṇa (grammar) and Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa (Poetics), voluminous works, Śṛngāprakāśa, Tattvaprakāśa Bhujabalabhīma, Bṛhadrājamārtaṇḍa, Rājamṛgānka, Samarāngana Sutradhāra, Yuktikalpataru, Vyavahāramañjarī, Campūrāmāyaṇa or Bhoja Campū, Avanikürmaśataka, Vidvajjñānavallabha, Nāmamālikā and Śālihotra can be established as factual.
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Apart from this Dhanapala has referred to enormous data on Sanskrit literature prior to his times and has alluded to certain special characteristic themes and sayings of different poets. As already observed he has referred to Valmiki and Vyāsa (Kānīna), the author and compiler of Rāmāyaṇa and Mahabharata, Bṛhatkatha, the popular tales-thesaurus of Guṇādhya, Pravarasena, the author of Setubandha, Tarangavati, a prose romance, Kālidāsa, Bāṇa and his son Pulinda Pulindhra actually Abhinanda as per Arya Saptasati of Viśveśvara Pandeya verse 51 page 26 their works Hars acarita and Kadambari Purva and Uttara bhāga, Magha, Haribhadrasuri and his Samarāditya, Bhavabhūti, Vākpatirāja, Bhadrakīrti, the Śvetāmbara lord, Yāyāvarakavi (i.e. Rajasekhara), Sūri Mahendra, Rudra and his Trailokya Sundari, Kardamaraja etc. The legend of the boar incarnation of Visnu supporting the carth on its snout has been referred to at a number of places.' The legend of the birth of submarine fire from the thigh of the Aurva sage has been mentioned, its scientific implication being different. The legend of the churning of the ocean resulting in the war between the gods and the demons also occurs at few places. The legend of Visnu sleeping in the ocean and waking up after a stipulated period of time symbolising the natural phenomena of ebbing and tiding of the ocean etc. The legends of the war between Nivāta and Kavaca (the daityas of the race of Hiranyakasipu), the Vṛtra-Indra fight symbolising the release of waters from the barriers through the power of cloud and electricity;" the legends of Rāmāyaṇa such as regalement of Sita by Trijatā in the Aśokavana (Lanka), the strolls of Mandodarī and the long slumbers of Kumbhakarna also called Sahodara, the character of Lakṣmaṇa (son of Sumitra) associated with
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1. TM Vol. I p. 69, Vol. II p. 264.
2. Ibid. Vol.II p. 262, Vol. III p. 263.
3. Ibid. Vol. II p. 264, Vol I p. 142.
4. Ibid. Vol. II p. 264.
5. Ibid. vol. II p. 266
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid. Vol. II p. 288.
