Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Golden Town, and Other Tales From Somadeva's Ocean of Romance-Rivers
The date when the Brihat-katha was written must lie somewhere in the first five centuries of our era, perhaps even in the first three. But much of its material is very ancient indeed, belonging to the oldest cycles of Indian romance, and often shewing affinities to the folklore of the most distant lands. By his adaptation Soma-deva has rescued for posterity this treasure of old-time wit, wisdom, and imagination, and earned from us a debt of gratitude far beyond his own poetical merit, great as that is.
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