Somadeva : Bhatta of Kashmir, writer or compiler of Kathāsaritsāgara.
... be fixed at about 100 B.C. 2 ]... also refers to Chanakka or Chānakya, the minister of Chandragupta, without suggesting that he was also known as Kautilya. In the Kāshmirian Sanskrit versions (of Somadeva and Kshemendra) of the Brhatkathā of Gunādhya the story of Chānakya is found: it is quite likely, therefore, that it was included in the original Brhatkatha. The significant fact, however, is... century A.D." 4 - that is, a time which can hardly be considered early in the field of discussion involved. What we should not forget is a situation somewhat similar to that of the Brihatkathās of Somadeva and Kshemendra. The Sanskrit translations project beliefs not of the two translators' periods but of the earlier period of Gunadhya who wrote most probably in Paiśāchi Prākrit and about whose date... original need not have been so close to that of the translation. Between the translations of the Panchatantra and the original, more than four centuries could elapse. Between the translation by Somadeva (c. 1070 A.D.) and the original Brihatkathā of Gunādhya more than five centuries at the least and over a thousand years at the most could intervene. There is no reason why we should not credit a ...
... divine will, give a clear vision, guide us through the secret worlds and ultimately to the home of Immortality. The Vedic Rishis sang to the Soma creeper or god Soma, Tatra mām amṛtam kṛdhi, O Somadeva, carry us where thou flowest down and there make us immortal. For there abound all delight, all ecstasy, all enjoyment, all lure and the supreme Desire of desire – ānanda, moda, mud, pramud, ...
... 341,366,371,395,412,419,425,458 Page 496 Shankara 30 Shaw, Bernard 400, 436 Shelley, P.B. 309,315 Somadeva 48 Spengler, Oswald 400 Spiegelberg, Frederic 53 Stacc.W.T. 272 Stambler, Bernard 272, 380 Stanford, W.B. 402 Stephen, J.K. 376 Stevens, Wallace ...
... 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 was an undergraduate at Cambridge. The manuscript bears dates ranging ...
... inscription of 743...year uses the words atīta and again atīteshu: Śaka-nrpa-kālātīta-samvatsara-śateshu saptasu trichātvarinśa- dadhikeshu atīteshu vaisdkha-paurnamāsyām. 1 2 . Somadeva Suri, a Jain author, writing his Yaśas Tilakacham-pu in Śaka 881, writes in the colophon of this work: Śaka-nrpa-kālātita-śarhvatsara-sateshvashtasvekasdityadhikeshu gateshu, i ...
... divine will, give a clear vision, guide us through the secret worlds and ultimately to the home of Immortality. The Vedic Rishis sang to the Soma creeper or god Soma, Tatra mām. amrtam krdhi, O Somadeva, carry us where thou flowest down and there make us immortal. For there abound all delight, all ecstasy, all enjoyment, all lure and the supreme Desire of desire – ānanda, moda, mud, pramud, kāma¹ ...
... 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, that young Vuthsa ...
... earth must open to heaven Till her dim soul awakes into the Light. 106 Less loaded with 'purpose', Vasavadutta is more disarmingly romantic, and harks back to the legend in Somadeva's Katha-sarit-sagara ("The Ocean of Story') and the famous play by Bhasa. King Udayan is held prisoner by his rival, King Mahasegn, and Princess Vasavadutta is the jailor. The inevitable happens ...
... appeared at [ ], 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 ...
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