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 ...
Part 13 - Micronesia
Micronesia embraces the Pelew, Caroline, Marianne and Gilbert groups of islands. Betel-chewing exists in the first three groups, but appears to be unknown in the Gilbert Islands, where kava -drinking is the chief narcotic. “There is certainly no betel-chewing in the Gilbert or Ellice Islands,” says Mr Woodford (of the Solomon Islands) in a letter to me: “both groups are merely coral atolls and the areca-palm would not grow there.”