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marginal gloss on the authorship-label ‘potţisassa reads : Hāla-- mantri tu potţisaḥ. This confirms the tradition we find in the Lilāvai.
9. As in the case of Namdiuddha and Poțțisa, so also in the case of Hariuddha we find in Hāla's Gähā-sattasai a Gāthā or two attributed to him. III. 88 is given under the name of Hariuddha, and the name Haritau under which II. 100 is given may be a corruption of Hariuddha misread as Hariuta. As Virahānka is plausibly assigned to a period prior to the eighth century A.D.13, Harivrddha is to be placed between Hāla and Virahārka.
10. Thus Harivrddha alias Viddhakavi was an acknowledged carly authority on Prakrit prosody. His eminent achievements as a Prakrit poet are indicated by his sobriquet Viddhakai or Vuddhakai (Vņddha-kavi) and by the Karpūraman jari and Sarasvatikanthcblxrana allusions. If he is the same as the Hari quoted by Namisādhu, he should be also credited with some notable contribution to poetics. In the literary tradition current during the period 800-1000 A.D., his name figured in association with the names of important Prakrit poets and authors like Hāja, Nandivụddha, Poțțisa and Bhujagādhipa-s.
2. Sātavāhana 11. The following facts about Sātavāhana are quite well-known. Onwards from the sixth century A.D., we have a powerful' literary and legendary tradition which considers Pk. Hāla, Sālāhana, Sālavāhana, Sk. Śātsvāhana, Sālivāhana, śālavāhana etc. as different forms of the same namel, which belonged to a famous king of Pratisthāna. This Hāla-Sātavāhana had become a great legendary figure credited with many glorious deeds and achievements. There are numerous references to his patronage of learning and partiality for Prakrit language and literature. He is famous as the compiler of the anthology of Prakrit verse variously called Gāhākoso, Kosa, Gāhā-satu-sai, Gāthū-saptaśuti etc. He is also credited with the authorship of (1) numerous.
