Leela Charitra

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Leela Charitra is a biography of Chakradhar Swami, the guru of the Mahanubhava sect, and is a sacred text of that sect.[1] It was written in the late 13th century by his follower Mhaimbhat.[2]

The Lilacharitra, though written in Marathi, is replete with Kannada words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. Nagendra (1988). Indian Literature. Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan. p. 205. OCLC 19812121.
  2. Civacaṅkari (1998). Knit India Through Literature. Eastwest Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-81-88661-15-2.
  3. Novetzke, Christian Lee (18 October 2016). The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India. Columbia University Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-231-54241-8.