TY - BOOK AU - Somadeva Bhatta,active 11th century AU - Tawney,C.H. TI - The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story AV - PK PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Tales -- India KW - India -- Social life and customs KW - Hindu mythology KW - Folk literature -- Themes, motives N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathasaritsagara; Release date is 2012-08-26; Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story" by Somadeva Bhatta is a collection of Indian legends and folk tales written in the 11th century. This vast work contains approximately 22,000 verses organized into 350 interconnected tales. The frame story follows Prince Naravahanadatta's adventures, romances, and battles, but serves as a framework for countless nested stories. Originally adapted from a lost ancient work, these tales blend the miraculous and the everyday, featuring gods, demons, celestial beings, and mortals whose fates intertwine through divine curses and earthly adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40588 ER -