The Ocean of Story, Vol. 9 of 10

Download or read book The Ocean of Story, Vol. 9 of 10 written by Somadeva Bhatta Penze and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ocean of Story, Vol. 9 of 10: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) Now Edited With Introduction, Fresh, Explanatory Notes and Terminal Essay The printing-press and the spread of primary education are affecting the demand for the services of the Kathak, but we can well imagine how extensive his influence was in mediaeval India. It will also be recognised that the art of the Kathak must have been largely responsible for the main tenance of a literary standard in the vernacular, and for the gradual development of a vigorous literature in languages such as, Hindi, Bengali and Guzerati. In the earlier centuries of the Christian era the epics and the stories were mostly enshrined in Sanskrit, but the Kathak had to relate them to his audience in the spoken language. It is not difficult therefore to realise that powerful influences were at work for the preservation, in a written form of the vernacular, of works which were previously accessible in a language understood only by a very small minority of the people. Perhaps some explanation may be found in these circumstances of the tradition embodied in Somadeva's recension of the Katha sarit-sdgara that Gunadhya had originally written out his collection of the stories in the Pais'achi dialect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.