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Some Prakrit Poets
Gathas in the same collection and of (2) the introductory section (katha-pitha) of the lost Bṛhatkatha which was composed by Guṇadhya in the Paiśāci Prakrit.16 But Hala-Satavahana's reputation as a great Prakrit poet and author would naturally suggest that his literary achievements might not have been confined to just this much. He might have written extensively. And in fact from a few references scattered here and there we do get some positive information about several other writings of Hala-Satavahana.
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12. From Virahanka's references discussed earlier, we have already inferred that Hala-Satavahana had composed a manual of Prakrit prosody, which was considered authoritative. We have no information about its general scope or contents, but this much is definite that it treated at length the form and structure of the Prakrit Dvipadi.
13. Besides being a Prakrit metrician, Häla-Satavahana was also a Prakrit lexicographer. He had composed a lexicon of Deśya words from which five actual quotations are given in Hemacandra's Desināmamālā. At all the five places Hemacandra cites Satavahana to record a difference of opinion about the meaning of a particular Deśya word. This implies that Hala-Satavahana's authority as a Deśikära was such that Hemacandra deemed it necessary to give the former's view where it diverged from one which he himself had adopted.
The quotations given by Hemacandra are as under: 1. "jambulam madya-bhājanam' iti Sātavāhanaḥ-(Deśināmātā, under II. 41, p. 146) 2. tivvam atyratham' iti Sātavāhanaḥ (ibid, under V. II, p. 187) purohaḍam pacchokaḍam (?) iti tu Sātavāhanaḥ (ibid, under VI. 15, p. 215)
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padis amtam astamitam' iti tu Sātavāhanaḥ,' (ibid, under VI. 18, p. 217) padihatt ho vacanam' iti tu Sātavānhanaḥ (ibid, under VI. 19, p. 217)
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