Hāla
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The Maharashtri Prakrit novel Lilavati (c. 800 AD) describes his romance with a princess of Simhaladvipa[3] (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 Lilavati, the beautiful daughter of the king of Ceylon. He narrated her story to Hāla. King Hāla secured Lilavati and married her.[1]
Hāla is famous for compiling an anthology of Maharashtri Prakrit poems known as the Gaha Sattasai (Sanskrit: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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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mahajan V.D. (1960, reprint 2007) Ancient India, S.Chand, New Delhi, ISBN 81-219-0887-6,pp.394-95
- ↑ Raychaudhuri, H.P. (1972), Political History of Ancient India, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, p.361
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