[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s3.196 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.196 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.196 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.196](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.196) There is a work written in the old Mahârâṣṭrî dialect called Saptaśatî, which is of the nature of an anthology consisting of Gâthâs or stanzas in the Âryâ metre, mostly on love matters. The author of this is in the third verse mentioned as Hâla, and ordinarily he is spoken of as Sâtavâhana. Bâṇa speaks of it in a verse in the introduction to his Harshacharita as "an imperishable and refined repository of good sayings composed by Sâtavâhana." Verses from it are quoted in Dhanika's commentary on the Daśarûpaka, in the Sarasvatî Kaṇṭhâbharaṇa, and in the Kâvyaprakâśa. There is, it will be observed, in the list of the Andhrabhṛtya princes, one of the name of Hâla, who probably was either the author of the work or to whom it was dedicated by a court-poet. From these traditions we may, I think, safely conclude that literature flourished under the rule of the Andhrabhṛtyas, and that the Prâkṛits or spoken languages, especially the Mahârâṣṭrî, were probably for the first time used for literary purposes. In Vâtsyâyana's Kâmasûtra or Institutes of Love, Kuntala Sâtakarṇi Sâtavâhana is spoken of as having killed Malayavatî, who is called - [Previous: c8.s3.195](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.195) - [Next: c8.s3.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.197) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Cites (6) - [Kāvyaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.kavyaprakasa) — Mammaṭa & Alaṭa, Sanskrit - [Gāhāsattasaī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.prakrit.sattasai) — Hāla, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit - [Harṣacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.aryavarta.harsacarita) — Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Daśarūpaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rupakalaksana.dasarupaka) — Dhanañjaya (Daśarūpaka), Sanskrit - [Kāmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kamasutra-school.vatsyayana) — Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, Sanskrit - [Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa (grammar)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.anya.sarasvatikanthabharana) — Bhoja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.196](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.196) · Pramāṇa