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>UndercutIndian: The name of poem is Lilavai by Kouhala not Līlāvatī. Līlāvatī is an 12th century mathematical treatise. The linked source, Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia by Pollock (page 71) also correctly names it as Lilavai and not Līlāvatī. Added the source to English translation of Lilavai to enunciate the difference. Also, it's a poem not novel.

2021-02-25T15:48:01Z

The name of poem is Lilavai by Kouhala not Līlāvatī. Līlāvatī is an 12th century mathematical treatise. The linked source, Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia by Pollock (page 71) also correctly names it as Lilavai and not Līlāvatī. Added the source to English translation of Lilavai to enunciate the difference. Also, it's a poem not novel.

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'''{{IAST|Hāla}}''' (r. 20–24 CE) was a [[Satavahana]] king who ruled in present-day [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] region.<ref name="Mahajan">Mahajan V.D. (1960, reprint 2007) ''Ancient India'', S.Chand, New Delhi, {{ISBN|81-219-0887-6}},pp.394-95</ref> The [[Matsya Purana]] mentions him as the 17th ruler of the Satavahana dynasty.<ref>Raychaudhuri, H.P. (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', University of Calcutta, Calcutta, p.361</ref>

The [[Maharashtri Prakrit]] poem by ''Kouhala'', ''Lilavai'' (c. 800 CE) describes his romance with a princess of Simhaladvipa (identified with present-day [[Sri Lanka]]). Vijayananda, the [[commander-in-chief]] of Hala's army led a successful campaign in [[Ceylon]]. On his way back, he stayed back at ''Sapta Godavari Bhimam''. Here, he came to know about Lilavai, the beautiful daughter of the king of Ceylon. He narrated her story to {{IAST|Hāla}}. King {{IAST|Hāla}} secured Lilavai and married her.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sheldon I. Pollock |title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia |url=https://books.google.co/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA71 |year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22821-4 |page=71 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Kouhala |title=Lilavai |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674247598 |year=2021|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674247598 }}</ref><ref name="Mahajan"/>

{{IAST|Hāla}} is famous for compiling an anthology of [[Maharashtri|Maharashtri Prakrit]] poems known as the [[Gaha Sattasai]] ([[Sanskrit]]:{{IAST|Gāthā Saptaśatī}}), although from linguistic evidence it seems that the work now extant must have been re-edited in the succeeding century or two.

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