Tilakamanjari

SR No.: 022659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 504
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMANJARĪ
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From this review it becomes apparent that Meghavāhana followed by Harivāhana had almost whole of the Bhāratakşetra having the four subdivisions of the four oceans, Daksināpatha including the Eastern and the Western direction surrendered by Kusumasekhara and Vicitravīrya who was the supreme sovereign of Pañcasaila which was an intermediary island of the Southern ocean, the whole of the Uttarāpatha, the Central part (Madhyamakhanda) of Bhāratakşetra), Anga, Vanga, Kalinga, Kāmarūpa (Prāgjyotisa) forming the Eastern part, Eastern and Western Videha has (aufgefasteig) the overlordships of the Pāñcāla (Kusasthala), Dravida (Kāñcī), whose king Kusumasekhara the fore head mark of the Yadu kings had brought under sway the overlords of the earth falling between the mountains Mahendra and Malaya, the Magadha whose lord Suraketu reigning in Kusumapura had yielded to Meghavāhana.? Even Raivataka mountain in Surāṣtramandala and its king Mahābala who had battered the banks of the western ocean by the pressure of his armies, have been referred to.' Kalinga, Vanga, Anga, Košala (Mahākośala) and Kulūta have been treated in the same line indicating the subservience of these to Meghavāhrana. Kulūta is modern Kullū“ in Himācala Pradesh.
While describing the sylvan tracts of Kāmarūpa Dhanapāla has shown distinction between the civilized and the uncivilized localities in so far as he has referred to
"कदाचिदुत्तमप्रकृतेरिव महाजनपदानुसारिणः शवरपल्लीषु रणपराजयप्रतिपन्नदास्यान् दस्युसेनापतीनितस्तत: प्रेषयतः," शीघ्रतरलंघितानेकसुन्दरार्यजनपदस्य, निकटग्रामवासिकीकटकुटुम्बसंगृह्यमाणनिघसयवसेन्धने हठनिराकृतलुण्टाककीकटप्रायलोके"
The distinction between the Mahājanapadas inhabited by the sophisticated subjects, the army-in-chiefs of the marauders taking to servitude after having been defeated in battle in the hamlets of the Sabaras
1. TM Sm. Ed. p. 428 Sm ed. p. 142. 2. Ibid. Vol. III pp. 184-185. 3. Ibid. Vol. III p. 186. 4. HGAI p. 119. 5. TM Vol. III p.67. 6. Ibid. Vol. III p. 68. 7. Ibid. Vol. III p. 68. 8. Ibid. Vol. II p. 270. 9. Ibid. Vol. III p. 298.