Marula (
IAST
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Brahmic family, Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that ...
: Mārulā;
fl.
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13th century or earlier) was a
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
-language poet from India. Her verses are included in early medieval Sanskrit anthologies, including Sharngadhara's ''
Paddhati'' and Jalhana's ''
Suktimuktavali''.
Date
Marula's verses are included in Sanskrit anthologies such as Jalhana's ''
Suktimuktavali'' (13th century) and Sharngadhara's ''
Paddhati'' (14th century). So, she must have lived in the 13th century or earlier, although her exact period is not certain.
She must have been a famous poet of her time, for a verse attributed to Dhanadadevas in Sharngadhara's ''Paddhati'' names her among four notable women poets:
Example verses
Only five of Marula's verses are now extant. The following verse is about a woman separated from her lover:
References
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Sanskrit women poets
Sanskrit poets
Indian women poets