SHILABHATTARIKA

  • Researchers recently embarked on a mission after which they claim to have shed new light on Shilabhattarika.
  • The celebrated Sanskrit poetess of ancient India was established as the daughter of the famed Chalukyan emperor Pulakeshin II of Badami (in modern Karnataka).
  • Shila-bhattarika was a Sanskrit poet.
  • One of her poems mentions the Narmada River (Reva) and the Vindhya mountains.
  • The Sanskrit poet-critic Rajashekhara who was the court poet of the Gurjara-Pratiharas, had praised Shilabhattarika for her elegant and beautiful compositions 

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB

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