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Kathasaritsagara : Ocean of the Rivers of Tales, popular tales in Sanskrit verse by Somadeva Bhatta between 1063 & 1081.

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... ], Chunda Mahasegn, till then invincible, has suffered rude but not decisive reverses. For the moment there is an armed peace between the two empires. The fable is taken from Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of the Rivers of Many Tales) and was always a favourite subject of Indian romance and drama; but some of the circumstances, a great many of the incidents and a few of the names have ...

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... until 1957, when it was published in the Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual and as a separate book. As stated by Sri Aurobindo in his author's note, he took the plot of Vasavadutta from the Kathasaritsagara , an eleventh-century Sanskrit story-cycle written by Somadeva Bhatta. INCOMPLETE AND FRAGMENTARY PLAYS (1891 - 1915) The Witch of Ilni. Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece when he ...

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... romances crowded with descriptive detail, monographs like Bana's biography of Harsha or Jonaraja's history of Cashmere, the collections of religious or romantic or realistic tales, the Jatakas, the Kathasaritsagara with its opulence and inexhaustible abundance of narrative in verse, the Panchatantra and the more concise Hitopadesha which develop the form of the animal fable to make a piquant setting for ...

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... Kant, Immanuel, 416 Kara-Kahini, 307fn, 308ff, 314H, 318, 320 Karmayogin, The, 201,250, 335,336ff, 345, 346ff, 359ff, 362H, 370, 375, 376, 390, 399, 449, 514, 531 Kathasaritsagara, 147 Katha Upanishad, 337 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 649 Keats, John, 30,41,176,177 Kena Upanishad, 337,459, 461ff, and Isha, 461; comparison with Mother's prayer ...

... of empire; and he is determined, whether by hook or by crook, to reduce Cowsambie to vassalage. This is the political background of the play. For the romantic story, Sri Aurobindo went to the Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva, and took a hint or two from Bhasa's dramatic version of the legend in his Pratijna Yugandharayana* The play begins with Chunda Mahasegn confessing to his son. Gopalaca ...