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The Ocean of Story Being C.H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story)

1926

Collections of the first or literary group are also as might be expected from the ancient and unbroken civilisation of India unusually abundant in translations of The Jataka The Hitopadeda The Big-Veda The Patichatantra The Mandbhdrata The Rdmdyana etc. [...]. There can be no doubt that much of the popular literature of to-day—in the widest sense of the word—was the literature of the upper classes of the preceding centuries remodelled by the people in accorance with the innate instincts and disposition of each nation. [...] I must leave to others the tempting theme of the Ocean as literature and the love of puns which is a prominent feature of it and devote the small remainder of my space to a mention of the more important contents of the present volume. [...] It contains the first part of the tales of a vetala or vampire of which the framework is the removal of a vampiranimated corpse from its tree by King Trivikramasena and its repeated escape from his back when the king answers the puzzle question put to him by the vetala at the conclusion of each story of the kind represented in modem literature by Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger ? These [...] And immediately the King of Vatsa and his entourage learnt the truth by means of the supenatural knowledge of Ratnaprabha and the other wives of Naravahanadatta that possessed the same powers."8 THE OCEAN OF STORY NOTE ON THE STORY OF VAMADAT.
literature fiction
Pages
355
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142202
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxii N.M. Penzer view
Preface
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Chapter LXVIII
1-8 unknown view
Chapter LXIX
9-22 unknown view
Chapter LXX
23-35 unknown view
Chapter LXXI
36-66 unknown view
Chapter LXXII
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Chapter LXXIII
100-140 unknown view
Chapter LXXIV
141-163 unknown view
Chapter LXXV
164-178 unknown view
Chapter LXXVI
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Chapter LXXVII
183-190 unknown view
Chapter LXXVIII
191-199 unknown view
Chapter LXXIX
200-203 unknown view
Chapter LXXX
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Chapter LXXXI
209-216 unknown view
Chapter LXXXII
217-222 unknown view
Appendix
223-294 unknown view
Index
295-332 unknown view

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