Title: An Eccentric Writer, a King, and a Bet: the story of how the "Huge Story" came to be

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Title: An Eccentric Writer, a King, and a Bet: the story of how the "Huge Story" came to be Title Record # 2922585
Author: Kshemendra
Date: 2020-04-27
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

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Translated by Brishti Guha
From the translators notes - "This story is excerpted from the Brihatkathamanjari, an eleventh century Sanskrit novel in verse by Kshemendra, a polymath from Kashmir, in northern India. Kshemendra, in turn, had based his novel on a lost Paisachi language manuscript called Brihatkatha (meaning "Huge Story"), attributed to Gunadhya.

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