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    The Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") (Devanagari: कथासरित्सागर) is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends, histories and...
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    Sanskrit. One of its oldest recensions is found in the 12th Book of the Kathasaritsagara ("Ocean of the Streams of Story"), a work in Sanskrit compiled in the...
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    scholars. Kshemendra's Brihatkathamanjari and Somadeva's 11th-century Kathasaritsagara, both adaptations of Brihatkatha, contain a number of legends about...
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    Paiśācī. The work no longer exists but several later adaptations — the Kathāsaritsāgara (कथासरित्सागर), Bṛhatkathāmañjarī (बृहत्कथामंजरी) and Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha...
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  • Bhatta was an 11th century writer from Kashmir, and author of the Kathasaritsagara. Not much is known about him except that his father's name was Rama...
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    Brhatkathamanjari by Kshemendra, Kathasaritsagara by Somadeva, and Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha by Budhasvamin. The Kathasaritsagara presents some stories about...
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  • earliest extant translations into an Indian vernacular. Soma — Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara ("Ocean of Streams of Story") of 1070 is a massive collection of stories...
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    strength, equal to Indra and Surya. According to a legend from the Kathasaritsagara, Aruna (Hinduism)the sun,the charioteer of Surya, travelled to Devaloka...
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  • Samrat Vikramaditya. Vararuci appears as a prominent character in Kathasaritsagara ("ocean of the streams of stories"), a famous 11th century collection...
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    the end of Dvapara Yuga and the commencement of Kali Yuga. As per Kathasaritsagara Silas, Sandeep (27 May 2012). "By myself in Bali". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X...
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