Tales from the Kathasaritsagara (Record no. 49671)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01485 a2200193 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250309102807.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789394407947 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 SOM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Somadeva |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tales from the Kathasaritsagara |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | HarperCollins Publisher India |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Gurugram, Haryana |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 327 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Kathasaritsagara - 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.<br/><br/>Drawing from earlier collections of tales, the Kathasaritsagara was composed in Sanskrit by Somadeva in eleventh-century Kashmir. In a period and a language still largely dominated by religious texts, the Kathasaritsagara 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.<br/><br/>Priests 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 Kathasaritsagara holds within itself come alive for a new generation of readers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General Fiction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Literature |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Short stories |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sattar, Arshia (Translator) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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