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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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
Saphara'—- a kind of bright little fish that glistens when darting about in shallow water.2
Jalakari? — A Hippopotamus, a water elephant also Jalahasti known as Kariyādas. Nakra in (Tatacara tet) qualifying Had:' — the navigators that surrounded Taraka; means an alligator. The narrow of an alligator improved the vision and guarded it against the effect of certain poison effecting it in the sea.
‘Simśumāra', a porpoise. 'A Simhamakara"? — a lion-faced Crocodile.
"Dundubha"8_ a water snake-and Takşakāsīvişa. Seasons
Dhanapāla has referred to all the six season.
The Summer, The Rains, The Autumn, The frost season, The Cold season and the Spring season at regular intervals in the text of Tilakamañjarī.
Summer has been termed 'grīşmasamaya' wherein it was convenient to rise up in morning and to take a bath in the early hours was not menacing. It was rather soothing. Harivāhana is shown here even taking his breakfast in these hours. The clusters of fresh clouds following it have been described as darkening the foreground of the outer garden Mattakokila, situated on the shores of the Sarayū. It has also been called 'Nidāgha' which torments the wayfarers who are prone to prepare the leafy couches in the arbours of Mādhavī-creepers having their centres surrounded by the water-basins replenished with water.
The precinct of the shores of Sarayū had canopies of the rays of the sun sultry during summer, benumbed by the sprays of the icy cold water showered by their being pierced by the breeze.
1. TM Vol. III p. 262, Vol. II p. 274. 2. M Williams p. 1052 3. TM Vol. II p. 265, Vol. II p. 279, Vol. II p. 307. 4. Ibid. Vol. III p. 189, Vol. II p. 274, Vol. II p. 307, Vol. II p. 305. 5. Ibid. Vol. II p.305. 6. M. Williams. p. 1069 7. TM Vol. II p. 305. 8. Ibid. Vol. II p. 279. L. 9 TM Vol. III p. 50. 9. Ibid. Vol. II pp. 234-235, TM Vol. III p. 89. 10. Ibid. Vol. II p. 236.