Folk Tales of India
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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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.