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Kathāsaritsāgara

being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story)

by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Hindi, KAN, Russian, Sanskrit, TEL
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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of Kathāsaritsāgara (1839). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

Subjects: Folklore, Fairy tales, Tales, Social life and customs, Folk literature, Hindu mythology, Themes, motives, Sanskrit literature

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Folk literature”, “Folklore”, and 2 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folk literature” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Mythology”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 25 editions; 2 cataloged here.

The ocean of story

1924Priv. print. for subscribers only by C.J. SawyerEnglish—Public

Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara

1994Penguin BooksEnglish
  • 9780140247213
  • 0140247211
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  • Open Library reports 23 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 25 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL241941W
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