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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LILĀVAI
quotes Hemacandra's sūtras in explaining many words and Dhatvadeśas. In a few places one can apparently suspect that the illustrations come from the Līlāvati with or without minor changes, for instance, hiyayan mha dūmei, visamaïo, junna-sură etc., as discussed in the Notes on gathās 144, 169, 1266, etc.
6) Verses traced in Agadadatta's Tale' and Vajjalaggam' do not prove much, because the dates of these works are not definite.
7) The Surasumdaricariya of Dhaneśvara was composed in Samvat 1095 (-57 = 1038 A. D.). It possesses many situations, ideas and motifs which closely resemble those in our Lilavati. The general format, the device of emboxing tales and biographies, the use of detached words to introduce the gathās, etc. are practically alike in both. I have been able to detect at least one verse in the Surasumdaricariya which appears to have been taken from the Līlāvati with some changes in the second line.5
8) The literary career of Bhoja, the celebrated Paramāra king of Malwa and a learned prince of his age, is assigned roughly to a period between 1030 to 1050 A. D.
In his Srågāra-prakasa XI, he defines and illustrates Katha by mentioning the Līlāvati in this manner:
या नियमितगतिभाषा दिव्या दिव्योभयेति वृत्तवती ।
कादम्बरीव लीलावतीव सा कथा कथिता ॥ He is also said to have quoted from the Lilavati. In chapter XXVII, Dautyaprakasa, Bhoja remarks thus :
सहपांसुक्रीडा यथा कुवलयावली महानुमत्या लीलावत्याम् ।
1 See the Notes on gathās 569 and 781 at the end. 2 Ed. Bibliotheca Indica, No. 227, Calcutta 1944, See the Notes on gathas 74.1,
222, 1141 and 1308*1, 3 See page 26 above. 4 See page 40 above. 5 See the Notes on gatha 1091 at the end. 6 P. V. Kane : Sahityadarpaņa, Bombay 1923, Intro. p. xcvii. 7 See M. R. Kavi's article in the Bharati, 1926; Srngaraprakasa of Bhojadeva,
22-24, Madras 1929, p. xxi; Krishnamachariar : History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, p. 439. My friend Dr. V. Raghavan writes to me that Lilavati
is quoted by Bhoja in śp. 8 Apparently AETOTT is a misreading.