Lilavai

The romance Lilavai, an early ninth-century poem attributed to Kouhala, is a complexly woven narrative of love and fate centered on three young women: Lilavai, princess of today's Sri Lanka, and her cousins Mahanumai and Kuvalaavali. A new edition of the Prakrit text, presented in the Devanagari script, accompanies a new English prose translation.

About the author

Andrew Ollett is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Summary

The romance Lilavai, an early ninth-century poem attributed to Kouhala, is a complexly woven narrative of love and fate centered on three young women: Lilavai, princess of today’s Sri Lanka, and her cousins Mahanumai and Kuvalaavali. A new edition of the Prakrit text, presented in the Devanagari script, accompanies a new English prose translation.

Product details

• Authors: Kouhala, KOUHALA
• Assisted by: Andrew Ollett (Editor), Andrew Ollett (Translation), Andrew Ollett (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780674247598
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24759-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Murty Classical Library of India; Murty Classical Library of Ind
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, HISTORY / Asia / General, Asian History, Poetry / Poems