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'''Harisena''' was a 4th-century [[Sanskrit]] poet, [[Panegyric|panegyrist]] and a [[Royal court|court official]].<ref name="Warder1990">{{cite book|last=Warder|first=Anthony Kennedy|title=Indian Kavya Literature: The early medieval period (Shudraka to Vishakhadatta)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10bVNjRwE_0C&pg=PA75|year=1990|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0448-7|page=75}}</ref> He was an important figure in the court of [[Gupta Empire|Gupta emperor]], [[Samudragupta]]. His most famous poem, written {{circa|345 C.E.}}, describes the bravery of Samudragupta and is inscribed on the [[Allahabad Pillar]]. At least one of his known [[inscription]]s was written as a [[panegyric]].<ref name="Sharma1989">{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Tej Ram|title=A Political History of the Imperial Guptas: From Gupta to Skandagupta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWVZWjNAcAgC&pg=PA90|year=1989|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-251-4|page=90}}</ref><br />
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Harisena was an early writer of [[Kāvya]] poetry; [[Arthur Berriedale Keith]] says of it, "Harisena's poem bears expressly the title Kavya, though it consists both of prose and verse. Its structure is similar to the delineation of kings adopted in the prose romances of [[Subandhu]] and [[Bāṇabhaṭṭa|Bana]]".<ref name="Keith1966">{{cite book|last=Keith|first=Arthur Berriedale|title=A History of Sanskrit literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uiAAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=76–7}}</ref> Other works attributed to either this author (or others by the same name) includes ''Apabramsa Dharmapariksa'', ''Karpuraprakara'' (''Suktavall''), the medical treatise ''Jagatsundari-Yogamaladhikara'', ''Yasodharacanta'', ''Astahnikakatha'' and ''Brhatkathakosa''. He was also the chief minister of Samudragupta's empire.<br />
Harishena had a great interest in playing the lute with his friend Samudragupta. <br />
Harishena had also played an important role in the marriage of Samudragupta with [[Dattadevi]].<br />
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