Lilavai

SR No.: 002796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 500
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

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LILAVAI
The third gāthā found in all the important recensions states that Hala, the beloved of the poets (kai-vacchala), arranged here (viraïaim) seven hundred out of a crore of embellished gathās.' The colophons of some MSS., as well as some concluding verses,' attribute this collection to Hala. Literary tradition recorded by eminent authors like Bāņa (c. 647 A. D.), Uddyotana (779 A. D.)," Abhinanda (earlier than Soddhala )," Soddhala' (2nd quarter of 11th century A.D.) and others not only refer to Hala as an author but also to his Kosa, which, as is well-known, has enjoyed unique popularity with rhetoricians as a source of suitable quotations.
Hala, as seen above, is a shortened form in Prakrit of Satavahana which was a dynastic title derived from the name of an earlier king and used by many a subsequent ruler in that family. It is difficult, therefore, to decide which Satavahana is responsible for the composition or compilation of this anthology. There are traditional stories to show that Satavahanas were partial to Prakrit; their inscriptions and coinlegends are in Prakrit; the topographical references in these gathās are mostly confined to their kingdom: all these facts go to corroborate the editorship of this anthology by some Satavahana king, popularly called Hāla. It cannot be attributed to
9 सत्त सआई कइवच्छलेण कोडीअ मज्झआरम्भि । हालेण विरइआई सालंकाराण गाहाणं ॥ ३ ॥
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इअ सिरिहालविरइए पाउअकव्वम्मि सत्तसए । सत्तमस समत्त गाहाण सहावरमणिज्जं ॥ and
एसो कइणामं किअगाहा पढिबद्व वडिआमोओ। सत्तसअओ समचो सालाहणविरइओ कोसो ॥ Weber's ed. (2nd), Leipzig 1881, Nos. 698 and 709, Kavyamala ed. (2nd), p. 207. See the note Satavahanah in the Bombay ed.
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४ अविनाशिनमग्राग्यमकरोत्सातवाहनः । विशुद्ध जातिभि: कोष रत्नरिव सुभाषितैः ॥ Harsacarita 13 : "Satavahana (v. 1. Šalivahana) made an immortal refined treasure of song, adorned with fine expressions of purest character like jewels,'
Kuvalayamala, opening verses : पालित्तेय सालाहण- छप्पण्णय-सीहणायसदेहिं । संयुद्धमुन्द्र सारंगड व्व कह ता पयं देमि ॥ निम्मल-गुणेण गुणगरुयपण परमत्थरयणसारण । पालित्तएण हालो हारेण व सहइ गोहि ॥ चक्कालजुयलसुहया स्मत्तणरायदं सकयहरिसा । जस्स कुलपव्वयस्स व वियरइ गंगा तरंगवई । भाणेइविलासमइत्तण-चोलिक्के ( ०.८. चोक्किले ) जो करेइ हाले वि। कग्वेण किं पडत्थे हाले हालावियारे व ॥ पण हि कइयणेण य भमरेहिं व जस्स जायपणहि । कमलायरो व्व कोसो विलुप्पमाणो वि हु ण झीणो ॥ Quoted from MSS. This extract is given in the Kavyamimamsa too; see p. 204, 3rd Ed., Baroda 1934.
6 Ramacarita : नमः श्रीहारवर्षाय येन हालादनन्तरम् । स्वकोषः कविकोषाणामाविर्भावाय संभृतः ॥ VI, 93. Quoted in the Intro. to the Kavyamala ed. of Saptasati (2nd ed., p. 2), and also in Kavyamimamsa, G. O. S., Paroda 1934, p. 204. nM
7 Udayasundarikatha, G. O. S., XI, Baroda 1920: gnà una dugngersनवाप्रयजडाः कृतिनस्तथामी । यत्तस्य नाम नृपतेरानशं स्मरन्तो हत्यारं प्रथममेव परं विदन्ति ॥ p. 2. 8 Govardhana's Aryasaptasati ( 12th century A. D.) is certainly modelled on the anthology of Hala.