About the Book: Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
The Kathasaritsagara - the ocean of stories - is among the worlds great story
collections, truly an ocean that carries the reader on its gentle swell to
shores far and near, to places known and imagined, to people familiar and
strange. Drawing from earlier collections of tales, the Kathasaritsagara was
composed in Sanskrit by Somadeva in eleventh-century Kashmir. In a period and a
language still largely dominated by religious texts, the Kathasaritsagara is a
breath of fresh air. No set of beliefs dominates, no sacred texts are glorified
- what it revels in most is the pulsating carnival of