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Synopsis
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Author and structure
Persian adaptations: Bahr al-asmar and Darya-yi asmar
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Overview
- Devanagari
- Sanskrit
- Shaivite Shaivism
- Somadeva
- Kashmir
- Story within a story
- Guṇāḍhya
- Bṛhatkathā Brihatkatha
- Paiśāchī Paiśācī
- Bṛhatkathamanjari Brihatkathamanjari
- Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha
- Vyasa
- Valmiki
- Recensions Recension
- Kṣemendra Kshemendra
- Nala
- C. H. Tawney Charles Henry Tawney
- Internet Archive
- N. M. Penzer Norman Mosley Penzer
- A. R. Krishnashastry
- James Mallinson James Mallinson (author)
- Clay Sanskrit Library
- Wayback Machine
- P. C. Devassia
- Arshia Sattar
- Radhavallabh Tripathi Radhavallabh Tripathi?action=edit&redlink=1
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
Author and structure
- King Ananta of Kashmir Ananta (king)
- Paisaci
- Guṇāḍhya Gunadhya
- Budhasvamin
- Nepal
- Ślokas Shloka
- John Milton
- Paradise Lost
Synopsis
- Udayana
- Kosambi
- Vidyadharas Vidyadhara
- Shiva
- Parvati
- Yaksha
- Kubera
- Pishacha
- Brahmins Brahmin
- Vararuchi
- Panini Pāṇini
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Pataliputra
- Satavahana Satavahana dynasty
- Pratishthan
- Ujjain
- Magadha Magadha (Mahajanapada)
- Durvasa
- Kunti
- Urvashi
- Pururavas
- Indra
- Ahalya
- Jimutavahana
- Clairvoyance
- Extrasensory perception
- Aniruddha
- Lokas Loka
- Dramatis personae
- Nagas Nāga
Persian adaptations: Bahr al-asmar and Darya-yi asmar
- Zayn al-‘Abidin Zayn al-Abidin the Great
- Rajatarangini
- Bṛhatkathā
- Akbar
- Gulistan Gulistan (book)
- Divan-i Hafiz Hafez
- Nizami Nizami Ganjavi
- Makhzan al-Asrar
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Important terminology
book stories kathāsaritsāgara sanskrit story two king somadeva tales bṛhatkathā work great naravahanadatta translation ocean udayana vidyadharas kashmir adventures one
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the two writers reproduced | instance of | A Bṛhatkathā | 0.80 | text |
| a prose work in the Paiśācī dialect | instance of | A Bṛhatkathā | 0.80 | text |
| existed | instance of | A Bṛhatkathā | 0.80 | text |
| therefore | instance of | A Bṛhatkathā | 0.80 | text |
| in Kashmir | instance of | A Bṛhatkathā | 0.80 | text |
| the Pañcatantra | instance of | but even whole books | 0.80 | text |
| the Vetālapañcaviṃśati | instance of | but even whole books | 0.80 | text |
| the story of Nala | instance of | but even whole books | 0.80 | text |
| Gulistan | instance of | The second type of strategy encountered is that of inserting poetic quotations from the pool of Persian poetry | 0.80 | text |
| Divan-i Hafiz | instance of | The second type of strategy encountered is that of inserting poetic quotations from the pool of Persian poetry | 0.80 | text |
| Divan-i Salman-i Savaji | instance of | The second type of strategy encountered is that of inserting poetic quotations from the pool of Persian poetry | 0.80 | text |
| Manzumat-i Sharaf al-Din Yazdi | instance of | The second type of strategy encountered is that of inserting poetic quotations from the pool of Persian poetry | 0.80 | text |
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