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THE LĀTAS
353 Kuvalayamālā (c. 779 A.D.). The inhabitants of Lāta are distinguished from those of Gurjara, the Lāța people appearing as pleasure-loving and humorous, and those of the north as sterner and of stronger build. Lāta appears to have possessed distinctive literary traits. A kind of style, favoured by the authors of Lāta, acquired the name of Lāți. Rājasekhara represents the people of Lāta as preferring Prākrit to Sanskrit.
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