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{{Short description|Satavahana dynasty king from 20 to 24 CE}}
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| succession = [[Satavahana dynasty|Satavahana Emperor]]
| reign = {{circa|20|24 CE}}
}}
'''{{IAST|Hāla}}''' (r. 20&ndash;24 CE) was a [[Satavahana]] king who ruled in present-day [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] region.<ref name="Mahajan">Mahajan V.D. (1960, reprint 2007) ''Ancient India'', S.Chand, New Delhi, {{ISBN|81-219-0887-6}},pp.394-95</ref> The [[Matsya Purana]] mentions him as the 17th ruler of the Satavahana dynasty.<ref>Raychaudhuri, H.P. (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', University of Calcutta, Calcutta, p.361</ref>

The [[Maharashtri Prakrit]] poem by ''Kouhala'', ''Lilavai'' (c. 800 CE) describes his romance with a princess of Simhaladvipa (identified with present-day [[Sri Lanka]]). Vijayananda, the [[commander-in-chief]] of Hala's army led a successful campaign in [[Ceylon]]. On his way back, he stayed back at ''Sapta Godavari Bhimam''. Here, he came to know about Lilavai, the beautiful daughter of the king of Ceylon. He narrated her story to {{IAST|Hāla}}. King {{IAST|Hāla}} secured Lilavai and married her.<ref>{{cite book |author=Sheldon I. Pollock |title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia |url=https://books.google.co/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA71 |year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22821-4 |page=71 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Kouhala |title=Lilavai |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674247598 |year=2021|publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674247598 }}</ref><ref name="Mahajan"/>

{{IAST|Hāla}} is famous for compiling an anthology of [[Maharashtri|Maharashtri Prakrit]] poems known as the [[Gaha Sattasai]] ([[Sanskrit]]:{{IAST|Gāthā Saptaśatī}}), although from linguistic evidence it seems that the work now extant must have been re-edited in the succeeding century or two.

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