This is an abridged and translated version of "The Kathasaritsagara" or "The Ocean of Stories". It brings together a varied selection of stories - histories and legends, myths, para-epic tales, animal and folktales, riddles and gnomic stories.
Soma deva composed his "The Ocean of the Rivers of Story" in Kashmir in the eleventh century CE. It is a vast collection of tales based on "The Long Story". Its twenty thousand plus verses are written in Sanskrit and it has long been used as an introductory text for students of the language.
This play was one of the first examples of Indian literature to be seen in Europe; it attracted considerable attention (among others, from Goethe), and indeed pained surprise that such a sophisticated art-form could have developed without the rest of the world noticing. A good deal of that surprise will be revived by the hitherto untranslated ...
The Four Soliloquies have been handed down as a collection of the most ancient monologue farces in classical Sanskrit. Though stylistically divergent, they share a common plot: the hero is an inept, bungling procurer, who mismanages his client's love-affairs to an unexpectedly successful completion. A wide spectrum of India's urban society is ...
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