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Guṇāḍhya is the
Sanskrit name of the sixth-century
Indian author of the Bṛhatkathā, a
large collection of
tales attested by Daṇḍin, the
author of the Kavyadarsha...
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Great Narrative") is an
ancient Indian epic, said to have been
written by
Guṇāḍhya in a poorly-understood
language known as Paiśācī. The work no
longer exists...
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layers of
story within a
story and is said to have been
adopted from
Guṇāḍhya's Bṛhatkathā ("the
Great Narrative"),
which was
written in a poorly-understood...
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powers (siddhis) and the art of
flying as milk in the pot of the sky.
Gunadhya is said to have
composed seven m****ive
stories about Vidyadharas, then...
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which was
based on the now-lost Paishachi-language
Brihatkatha by
Gunadhya. The Chanakya-Chandragupta
legend in
these collections features another...
- (literally "Big Story"), a
large collection of
stories in verse,
attributed to
Gunadhya. It is
known of
through its
adaptations in
Sanskrit as the Kathasaritsagara...
- livelihood. Also many
sorts of
superstitions had prevailed. Additionally,
Gunadhya, the
minister of Hala, was the
author of Brihatkatha.
Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar...
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summary of the lost "Northwestern" Bṛhatkathā;
itself a
recension of
Gunadhya's lost Bṛhatkathā — "Great Story") to 1066 (his
latest dated work, Daśavataracharita...
- on Udayana's
story in the
ancient Indian epic Brihatkatha,
written by
Gunadhya. The plot is set
before the
events of Svapnavasavadattam. It describes...
- by a
Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva.
Generally believed to
derive from
Gunadhya's Brhat-katha,
written in
Paisachi dialect from the
south of India.[citation...
