Conclusion: Even as I wrote this work, my daughter Smt. Shanta and grand-daughter Smt. Leela went through different segments and expressed their delight. They...
Bṛhat-kathā-śloka-saṃgraha Budha-svāmī’s Bṛhat-kathā-śloka-saṃgraha is probably older than both Kathā-sarit-sāgara and Bṛhat-kathā-mañjarī. It’s time is unknow...
The Bṛhat-kathā-śloka-saṃgraha is peppered with light-hearted and sweet humour here and there. The work also delineates profound lives of the common men and is...
The Sanskrit Translation of Bṛhat-kathā by Durvinīta Till now the available Sanskrit works related to the Bṛhat-kathā are only three—composed by Kṣemendra, Som...
The Story of Guṇāḍhya in the Nepāla-māhātmya The Nepāla-māhātmya comprises four chapters—twenty-seven to thirty—in the Himavat-khaṇḍa of the Skanda-purāṇa....
Bhūta-bhāṣā – Paiśācī-bhāṣā Guṇāḍhya did not compose the Bṛhat-kathā in the Sanskrit language and it is said that he wrote it in the Paiśācī-bhāṣā. (Daṇḍin and...
Sātavāhana Paithan is a town on the banks of the Godavarī in the Aurangabad district of the Hyderabad province and is now in the state of Maharashtra. Thi...
An Examination of the Story[1] of Guṇāḍhya Now let us take a look at why and how might have Vararuci, Kāṇabhūti, and Śātavāhana appeared in the context of the...