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'''Govardhana''' or '''Govardhanacharya''' was the court poet of the 12th-century [[Sena dynasty|Sena]] king, [[Lakshmana Sena]]. He was a contemporary of [[Jayadeva]] and is known for his ''aryasaptashati'' ({{IAST3|āryasaptaśatī}}), a collection of 700 stanzas of erotic poetry following the [[arya metre]].<ref name="bhattacharji">{{cite journal|last1=Bhattacharji|first1=Sukumari|title=A Survey of Sataka Poetry|journal=Indian Literature|date=1 January 1980|volume=23|issue=5|page=33|jstor=23339416}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Lal|first1=Mohan|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|date=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788126012213|page=3865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C|accessdate=15 May 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
This was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the āryā metre.<br />
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