Haravilāsamu (

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of South India ** Telugu literature, is the body of works written in the Telugu language. * Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Tel ...

: హరవిలాసము) is a poetic composition in

Prabandha Prabandha is a literary genre of medieval Indian Sanskrit literature. The ''prabandha''s contain semi-historical anecdotes about the lives of famous persons. They were written primarily by Jain scholars of western India (Gujarat and Malwa) from 1 ...

style written in

language by

Srinatha Srinatha ( – 1441) was a well-known 15th-century Telugu poet who popularised the Prabandha style of composition. Biography Srinatha was born in a Telugu Brahmin family of Bharadwaja gotra in Kalapatam village on Gudur Mandal in Krishna dis ...

. It is one of the books on

Saivism Shaivism (, , ) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the supreme being. It is the second-largest Hindu sect after Vaishnavism, constituting about 385 million Hindus, found widely across South Asia (predominantly in ...

(Hara means Siva).

Content

The Prabandha is divided into seven asvasas. The first and second asvasas described the story of Siriyala, the third and fourthth asvasas about the marriage of Gouri, the fifth asvasa about the tour of Parvati and Paramesvara, the sixth asvasa about the swallowing of

Halahala Halāhala (Sanskrit हलाहल) or Kālakūṭa (Sanskrit कालकूट, ) is the name of a poison in Hindu mythology. It was created from the Ocean of Milk when the devas and the asuras churned it (see Samudra Manthana) in order to ...

and the seventh asvasa about

Kirātārjunīya ''Kirātārjunīya'' (, ''Of Kirata and Arjuna'') is an epic poem by Bhāravi, written in Sanskrit. Believed to have been composed in the 6th century or earlier, it consists of eighteen cantos describing the combat between Shiva (in the guise ...

Publications

It has been published by

Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons ( Telugu: వావిళ్ల రామస్వామి శాస్త్రులు అండ్ సన్స్) is a 150-year-old Indian publishing house. It was started by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu ...

in 1916 and in 1931. It is reprinted in 1966. Emesco published it in 2013 with foreword by Viswanatha Satyanarayana.

Other languages

Haravilasa has been written in other Indian languages; K. Venkataramappa wrote it in Kannada language.

Popular culture

Haravilāsa is taken as Telugu film in 1941 directed by Kocharlakola Rangarao; the Srinatha role is played by Vemuri Gaggayya.

References

{{reflist Telugu poetry 15th-century poetry Shaiva texts