Description: 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.
Brief description: Andrew Ollett is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Review Quotes: Ornate and naturalistic...In his translation, Ollett simplifies awkward phrasings, transforms the long and unwieldy passive constructions common in Indo-Āryan languages into active constructions, as well as ably renders unclear or difficult passages...The result is very readable and engaging.--Jackson Stephenson "International Journal of Hindu Studies" (12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)