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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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
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Harivāhana's first meeting with Tilakamañjarī in the cardamom bower ending in separation after the exchange of mutual glances, the restless night of the prince in reveries for the maiden, the advent of the dawn marking his return to the tryst to find the maiden of his heart, has been described equally with a masterly execution of the design.
"The nocturnal gloom had vacated the opening of the quarters, the sluggish morning breezes were blowing, the sylvan creepers were waving the fans in the form of their leaves, the groves of blue lotuses were blowing up slightly, the rays of the sun were descending down gradually, the arrays of swans, Krauñcas (Herons) and cranes slumbering in lakes were spreading in the sky, the morning hour becoming apparent, he again started off following the track of Tilakamañjari.”
All said and done the rich wealth of Dhanapāla's imagination in associating Nature with all types of mundane material, its mild as well as the fierce aspects, its humanising effects on the reflective moods of human nature, all stand displayed in the broad purview taken above. 4. CHARACTERISATION
Dhanapāla's handling of various characters acting their respective roles on the stage of this romance is equally appreciable. He certainly does not attain to the high water mark of precision as exhibited by Bāna. But his characters both men as well as women are perfect types, individuals of their own calibres whom he has tried to portray with the pen of a moralist. Whereas Bāņa is perfectly human and he hardly swerves from the tendencies of mundane mortality, he imbues his characters with, Dhanapāla is immensely idealistic and soaring to the utmost heights of idealism he at places errs on the side of becoming sentimental.
His men characters are a complete picture of sobriety and large heartedness whereas women characters don't rise to the same level as those of Bāņa. Meghavāhana bearing semblance of Tārāpīda in Kādambarī and
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