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Budhasvamin tells the astonishing epic tale of the youthful exploits of prince Naraváhanadatta. It is indeed a great story, as its Sanskrit title declares. Epic in scope and scale, it has everything that a great story should: adventure, romance, suspense, intrigue, tragedy and comedy. The reader is taken from royal palaces to flying sorcerers’ mountain fastnesses via courtesans’ bedrooms and merchant ships. The frame story narrates Naraváhanadatta’s progress culminating in his enthronement as Emperor of the Sorcerers, winning twenty-six wives along the way. Unfortunately, the surviving manuscripts of the text break off while he is in pursuit of his sixth wife. Volume One’s adventures end with his lute contest and marriage to Gandhárvadatta. The fast and witty narrative eschews lengthy description and provides fascinating insights into ancient India. Volume two of Budhasvamin’s The Emperor of the Sorcerers begins with the merchant Sanudasa telling the story, an epic in itself, of how he acquired Gandhárvadatta, his daughter whose hand Naraváhanadatta, the hero of the book, has just won in a lute contest. In this and the tales of how the prince comes by his next two wives, the reader’s tour of ancient India continues, extending to the far south and beyond, to magical islands of gold, before heading north to Varánasi. Along the way, we learn of, among other things, flying sorcerers, transvestite ascetics clad in skulls, the finer points of gambling with dice, the perils of trading by sea, the rivalry between fate and human effort and the difference between town and country mice. Sadly, the surviving manuscripts of the texts break off while our hero is in pursuit of only the sixth of his twenty-six wives.

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Somadeva composed his “Ocean of the Rivers of Story” in Kashmir in the eleventh century CE. It is a vast collection of tales based on “The Long Story,” a now lost (and perhaps legendary) repository of Indian fables, in which prince Nara·váhana·datta wins twenty-six wives and becomes the emperor of the sorcerers. There are tales within tales within tales. By turns funny, exciting, or didactic, they illustrate points within the frame narrative or are told simply to provide entertainment for the protagonists. Its twenty thousand plus verses are written in simple but elegant Sanskrit and it has long been used as an introductory text for students of the language.

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