Tilakamanjari

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

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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPALA
Spring season has been described as prolific in sweet warblings of the inebriate cuckoo.' There is a pun on the word ‘Kanthīrava' meaning a lion, “Kalakanthirava' meaning the 'warbling of the sweet and indistinct noted cuckoo.' 'A wild forest infested with lions imbued with pride or ferocity' is what is purported forth by the latter part of the compound.
The appearance of the nocturnal hour, its culmination, the dawn of the diurnal glow, the march in that hour of Samaraketu in search of Harivāhana, the Atavībhū (Sylvan terrain) through which he passed, the Ekaśộnga mount he mounted on and the lake named Adrstapāra, he waded through all go to establish the point that Dhanapāla had a peculiar eye for the minute observation of all types of phenomenal occurrence, the Beauties of Nature likely to inspire and influence the psychology of a human being working under trying and affluent circumstances.
As Samaraketu resolved to start off (for a search of Harivāhana), as if having come to know of his resolve, the twilight tint with glow ripened up approached the sun as if to inquire after the piety involved in his marching off. The patches of sun shine mounted the tree tops, from the surface of the earth as if to collect the leaves for the salutation wreaths auspicious at the time of march. The array of orchards accommodated inside the hollows of the nests of trees, the clusters of birds made vociferous, stretched out as if prone to scare away the evil prates. The advent of night concealed the copper vessel in the form of the pitcher like orb of the solar (disc) inside the vat in the form of the western ocean, whose capacities to sip in waters (i.e. consume waters) had been examined manifoldly with a view to sanctifying the zodiac. The quarters coalesced mutually with leaves of Kuśā (Dūrvā grass) suffused with the drops of curd in the form of gloom-spangled with stars transferred into the caldron of emerald in the form of sky as if they were the coquettes wearing silk robes of the evening glow. The group of seven sages rose up in the sky shining with an upper scarf as if to proclaim the auspicious chart (Svastyayana).
And gradually as the nocturnal hour slinked away, the effulgence of the ambrosial rayed one blooming up slowly with the eastern sky shimmering forth, the quarters envying with the sylvan lakes endowed with the groves of lilies and lotuses blown up recently with glooms encircled round by the shine of the Moon, the trees owing to their interstices appearing to come closer with the intervening darkness patching up.............. Samaraketu-------- -- started off towards the Northern direction. Marching on, ----------- when the Thousand rayed one (i.e. the Sun) with faces of eight quarters brought to
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Hraf 446 Chiclauka44144Hari Ibid. Sm. ed. p.389. LL.2-3.