Folk Tales of India
Brihatkatha (The Great Narrative)
A lost narrative tradition known through later adaptations, including Kathasaritsagara and Brihatkathamanjari.
Work: Brihatkatha (The Great Narrative) · Lost original; Félix Lacôte (1908), historical study only
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About this work
- Author / compiler
- Traditionally Gunadhya
- Date
- Date uncertain; often placed in the early centuries around the start of the Common Era
- Original language
- Paishachi (reported original language)
A lost narrative tradition known through later adaptations, including Kathasaritsagara and Brihatkathamanjari.
No original text survives. The blood-written manuscript and linguistic wager belong to the author legend, not established biography.