Gāhā Sattasaī

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Gāhā Sattasaī is an ancient Prakrit anthology of roughly seven hundred lyrical love poems, traditionally attributed to the Satavahana king Hāla and renowned as a classic of early Indian secular literature.

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Gāhā Sattasaī canonical 4
Gaha Sattasai 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Prakrit poetry anthology
ancient Indian literary work
love poetry collection
alsoKnownAs Gāthā Saptashatī
Gāthā Sattasaī
associatedRasa śṛṅgāra
contains epigrammatic verses
countryOfOrigin India
genre love poetry
lyrical poetry
importance classic of early Indian secular literature
major source for social history of early Deccan
influenceOn Prakrit poetics
later Sanskrit love poetry
language Maharashtri Prakrit
languageFamily Middle Indo-Aryan languages
linked to: Middle Indo-Aryan
literaryCulture early classical Prakrit literature
literaryDevice imagery drawn from rural landscape
suggestion (dhvani)
literaryForm single-stanza poems
meter various Prakrit meters
modernReception translated into several modern languages
narrativeStructure non-narrative anthology
numberOfPoems approximately 700
placeOfCulturalOrigin Deccan region of India
linked to: Deccan region
preservation manuscript tradition
primaryTheme erotic sentiment (śṛṅgāra rasa)
love
regionAssociated Maharashtra
religiousOrientation largely non-religious
scriptOriginallyUsed Brāhmī-derived scripts
secondaryTheme marital and extramarital relationships
rural life
women’s emotions
studiedInField Indology
Prakrit studies
South Asian literary history
subjectMatter everyday life
secular themes
village and agrarian settings
textualTransmission multiple recensions
titleInPrakrit Gāhā Sattasaī
traditionalAuthor King Hāla
traditionalAuthorDynasty Sātavāhana dynasty
linked to: Satavahana dynasty
traditionalAuthorTitle Sātavāhana king
traditionalDate 1st–2nd century CE
typicalSpeakerInPoems lovers
women

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Gaha Sattasai hasTitle Gāhā Sattasaī
Gaha Sattasai hasTitle Gaha Sattasai
linked to: Gāhā Sattasaī
Gāhā Sattasaī titleInPrakrit Gāhā Sattasaī
Hāla notableWork Gaha Sattasai
linked to: Gāhā Sattasaī
Hāla notableWork Gāhā Sattasaī
Hāla associatedWork Gāhā Sattasaī
subject linked to: Satavahana king Hāla