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Bilhana
Bilhana was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet from Kashmir who left his homeland, travelled through northern India and became court poet of the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI at Kalyani. His Vikramankadevacharita, a verse biography of the king, is an important source for the dynasty's history. He is also credited with the love poem Chaurapanchashika, or Fifty Stanzas of a Thief.
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