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Kadambari

An intricate prose romance of love, separation and rebirth, told through nested narrators. Bana belonged to the literary world of King Harsha.

Work: Kadambari · Srikrishnamohana Thakura edition (1960), pp. 524–670 only; Sansknet/GRETIL

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An imagined portrait of Princess Kadambari by a lotus pond

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About this work

Author / compiler
Banabhatta; completed by his son, commonly named Bhushanabhatta
Date
7th century CE
Original language
Classical Sanskrit

An intricate prose romance of love, separation and rebirth, told through nested narrators. Bana belonged to the literary world of King Harsha.

The linked GRETIL witness contains only Purvabhaga descriptions 84–122, not the complete novel or its continuation.

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