Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story)
by Somadeva | 1924 | 1,023,469 words | ISBN-13: 9789350501351
This is the English translation of the Kathasaritsagara written by Somadeva around 1070. The principle story line revolves around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the Vidhyādharas (‘celestial beings’). The work is one of the adoptations of the now lost Bṛhatkathā, a great Indian epic tale said to have been composed by ...
List of Papers publish by Professor Maurice Bloomfield and his school
Preparatory to an Encyclopedia of Hindu Fiction
By Professor Bloomfield
“The Character and Adventures of Mūladeva”: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Iii, 616-650.
“On Talking Birds in Hindu Fiction”: Festschrift fur Ernst Windisch, 349*361.
“On Recurring Psychic Motifs, and The Laugh and Cry Motif”: Journal of the American Oriental Society, xxxvi, 54-89.
“On the Art of Entering Another’s Body; a Hindu Fiction Motif”: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, lvi, 1-43.
“The Fable of the Crow and the Palm-Tree; a Psychic Motif in Hindu Fiction”: American Journal of Philology, xl, 1-36.
“The Dohada, or Craving of Pregnant Women; a Motif of Hindu Fiction”: Journal of the American Oriental Society, xl, 1-24.
“On the Practice of giving Animals Intoxicating Drink”: ibid., 336-339-
“On Overhearing as a Motif of Hindu Fiction”: American Journal of Philology, xii, 309-335.
“Joseph and Potiphar in Hindu Fiction”: Transactions of the American Philological Association, liv, 141-176.
“The Art of Stealing in Hindu Fiction”: American Journal of Philolosy, xliv, 97-133, 193-229.
“On False Ascetics and Nuns in Hindu Fiction”: Journal of the American Oriental Society, xliv, 202-242.
“On Organized Brigandage in Hindu Fiction”: American Journal of Philology, xlvii, 205-233.
By Dr E. W. Burliṅgame
“The Act of Truth (Saccakiriyā); a Hindu Spell and its Employment as a Psychic Motif in Hindu Fiction”: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1917, pp. 429-467.
By Dr W. N. Brown
“The Wandering Skull”: American Journal of Philology, xl, 423-430.
“Escaping One’s Fate; a Hindu Paradox and its Use as a Psychic Motif in Hindu Fiction”: Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield, 89-104.
“Vyāghramārī, or the Lady Tiger-Killer; a Study of the Motif of Bluff in Hindu Fiction”: American Journal of Philology, xiii, 122-151.
“The Silence Wager”: ibid., xliii, 289-317.
“The Tar-Baby at Home”: Scientific Monthly, xv, 228-234.
By Dr Ruth Norton
“The Life-Index; a Hindu Fiction Motif”: Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield, 211-224.