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| name = Lilatilakam<br />
| title_orig = Līlā-tilakam<br />
| language = [[Sanskrit]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| subject = Grammar and poetics of Manipravalam<br />
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| media_type = [[Manuscript]]<br />
| orig_lang_code = sa<br />
}}<br />
'''''Lilatilakam''''' ([[IAST]]: ''Līlā-tilakam'', "diadem of poetry") is a 14th-century [[Sanskrit]]-language treatise on the grammar and poetics of the ''[[Manipravalam]]'' language style, a blend of Sanskrit and early Malayalam used in the [[Kerala]] region of [[India]].<br />
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== Date and authorship ==<br />
''Lilatilakam'' is an anonymous work, generally dated to the late 14th century.{{sfn|Eva Maria Wilden|2014|p=347}} It is attested by two (possibly three) manuscripts and is not referenced by any other surviving pre-modern source.{{sfn|Rich Freeman|2003|p=443}} In 1909, Appan Thampuran published a translation of the first part of ''Lilatilakam'' in the Malayalam magazine ''Mangalodhayam.'' Later, [[Attoor Krishna Pisharody]] (A. Kṛṣṇa Piṣāraṭi) translated and published the entire treatise:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=E.S. |first=Vishnu |date=March 2024 |title=Lilathilakavum Thadeshiyathayum |url=https://keralamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%82-%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%82.pdf |access-date=18 June 2024 |website=keralamuseum.org}}</ref> in 1916, he edited the Sanskrit sutras with a Malayalam translation of the original Sanskrit commentary.<ref>{{cite journal |author=John Brough |title=Līlātilaka: A Sanskrit Tract on Malayalam Grammar and Poetics |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=1947 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=1 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00079970 |jstor=608992 }}</ref><br />
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== Contents ==<br />
''Lilatilakam'' (literally "diadem of poetry"{{sfn|Rich Freeman|2003|p=442}}) calls itself the only disciplinary treatise (''[[shastra]]'') on [[Manipravalam]], which it describes as the "union" of Sanskrit and Kerala-bhasha (the regional language spoken in Kerala).{{sfn|Rich Freeman|2003|p=448}}<br />
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The text is written in [[Sanskrit]] language, in form of a series of verses with commentary; it also features examples of Manipravalam-language verses.{{sfn|Rich Freeman|2003|p=448}} The text is divided into eight parts called ''shilpam.''<ref name=":0" /> <br />
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* {{cite book |author=Eva Maria Wilden |title=Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuPmBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA347 |year=2014 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-035276-4 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Rich Freeman |chapter=The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala |editor1=Sheldon Pollock |editor2=Arvind Raghunathan |title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA22 |year=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22821-4 }}<br />
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