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Dhanapala (poet)
Dhanapala was a Jain poet and scholar at the Paramara court of Malwa under Vakpati Munja and Bhoja. He wrote the Sanskrit prose romance Tilakamanjari and the Paiyalacchi, a Prakrit lexicon completed in 972, which records that the Paramara army had just sacked Manyakheta, the Rashtrakuta capital. His works are a valuable source for the history of the period.
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