{"product_id":"tales-from-the-kathasaritsagara","title":"Tales From the Kathasaritsagara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKathasaritsagara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e- the ocean of stories - is among the world's 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing from earlier collections of tales, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKathasaritsagara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was composed in Sanskrit by Somadeva in eleventh-century Kashmir. In a period and a language still largely dominated by religious texts, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKathasaritsagara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 human life and experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePriests and monks, gamblers and courtesans, kings and bandits, merchants and housewives, talking animals, divine and demonic beings - all cavort through its pages, in cities and forests, across seas and on islands. And in Arshia Sattar's masterful translation, the many universes of adventure the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKathasaritsagara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e holds within itself come alive for a new generation of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dragonfly Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44183479844942,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/6711\/3294\/files\/9789394407947-23.jpg?v=1786944217","url":"https:\/\/dragonflyreads.in\/products\/tales-from-the-kathasaritsagara","provider":"Dragonfly Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}