Leela may refer to:

Business

The Leela Group The Leela Group is an Indian business conglomerate founded by Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair in 1981, and named after his wife. The hotel division, The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, is its most well known. It describes itself as inv ...

, an Indian business conglomerate *

The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts The Leela is an Indian luxury hotel chain founded in 1986 by C. P. Krishnan Nair and currently owned by Brookfield Asset Management. History The Leela hotels were founded as part of The Leela Group, which was named after the founder C. P. ...

, an Indian luxury hotel group

Characters

* Leela, granddaughter of Akela in Rudyard Kipling's ''

The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, ...

'' * Leela (''Doctor Who''), a fictional character in the British science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' * Leela (''Futurama''), a fictional character in the animated television series ''Futurama'' * Leela Lomax, a fictional character in the British soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * Leela, a human character on ''Sesame Street''

Film

* ''Leela'' (2002 film), a drama directed by Somnath Sen * ''Leela'' (2016 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Ranjith * '' Ek Paheli Leela'' (''Leela: A Mystery''), a 2015 Indian thriller film

Other uses

Leela (name) Leela is a name of Sanskrit origin. Like many Sanskrit words, it cannot be literally translated to English but can be loosely translated as "play" (noun). ''Lila'' is common to both non-dualistic and dualistic philosophical schools, but has a marked ...

Leela (game) Leela is a board game with origins in ancient India. The original game was created by Hindu scholars with the intention of teaching moral values, and was a precursor to the modern game snakes and ladders. Details The game was designed over five ...

, a board game with origins in ancient India *

Leela (software) Leela is a computer Go software developed by Belgian programmer Gian-Carlo Pascutto, the author of chess engine Sjeng. It won the third place for 19x19 board Go and the second place for 9x9 board Go at the Computer Olympiad in 2008, and won the e ...

, computer Go software * Leela Chess Zero, an open-source chess-playing program * Lila (Hinduism), an alternate transliteration for the Hindu cosmological concept *

Leela Attitude Leela attitude ( th, ปางลีลา; ) is an attitude of Buddha in Thai art of which the Buddha is stepping with his right foot and his right hand swinging and the other hand put towards to the front. The attitude is sometimes called the ' ...

, an attitude of walking Buddha in Thai art

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