English Translation of A R Krishna Shastry's Kathāmṛta
इदं गुरु-गिरीन्द्रजा प्रणय-मन्दरान्दोलनात् पुरा किल कथामृतं हर-मुखाम्बुधेरुद्गतं | प्रसह्य रसयन्ति ये विगतविघ्नलब्धर्धयो धुरं दधति वैबुधीं भुवि भवप्...
Udayana started reigning over the kingdom which he inherited from his father on a prosperous note. However, he gradually handed it over to Yaugandharāyaṇa and t...
Story 17 24. Trivikramasena put the corpse on his shoulder for the seventeenth time and started to walk. The vetāla started to narrate another story:- Th...
Story 19 26. Trivikramasena, for the nineteenth time, picked up the corpse and heaved it onto his shoulder before setting out. The vetāla began narrating anoth...
Story 21 28. Trivikramasena, for the twenty-first time, hauled the corpse on his shoulder and head out. The vetāla began narrating yet another story: There li...
Story 24 31. The king Trivikramasena carried he corpse for the twenty-fourth time on his shoulders and left. The vetāla started narrating another story...
The minister Vikramakesarin finished narrating the story and said, “O king! The elderly brāhmaṇa narrated these stories and said, ‘Trivikramasena got everything...
Deva! Kaṇva narrated this story and said, “Whoever would face adversities with courage will get all the fruits later, not the people who would run away in front...
स वो विघ्नेश्वरः पायात् नमितोन्नमितेव यम्। अनुनृत्यति नृत्यन्तं सन्ध्यासु भुवनावली॥ [May Vighneśvara, whose evening dance is imitated by the entire worl...
तुष्टेन येन देहार्धमप्युमायै समर्पितम्। स वो ददात्वभिमतं वरदः पार्वतीपतिः॥ May Śiva, who has given half his body to Umā being pleased with her, grant yo...
One night sleep eluded him, he was thinking, “I’ve been deeply interested in her, I’ve neglected others, where are my other wives? Where are my ministers?” he h...
The Story of Gomukha When the enemies flung me in different directions, a certain divine woman picked me up and dropped me in a forest. I was greatly distresse...