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A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila. quotations examples
Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, page 366