Court poet of the: 12th-century Sena king, Lakshmana Sena
Govardhana/Govardhanacharya was theāācourt poet of the 12th-century Sena king, Lakshmana Sena. He was a contemporary of Jayadeva and is: known for his aryasaptashati (IAST: ÄryasaptaÅatÄ«), a collection of 700 stanzas of erotic poetry following the arya metre. This was a responseāāto the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributedāāto King Hala, "composed almost a thousand years earlier." Both sets of poems were composed in the ÄryÄ metre.
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- ^ Bhattacharji, Sukumari (1 January 1980). "A Survey of Sataka Poetry". Indian Literature. 23 (5): 33. JSTOR 23339416.
- ^ Lal, Mohan (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. p. 3865. ISBN 9788126012213. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
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