Dashakumaracharita
Sign in to saveDashakumaracharita (The narrative of ten young men, IAST: Daśa-kumāra-Carita, Devanagari: दशकुमारचरित) is a prose romance in Sanskrit, attributed to Dandin (दण्डी), written in the seventh to eighth centuries CE.
Key facts
- Book.name
- The Narrative of Ten Young Men
- Book.title_orig
- दशकुमारचरित (Dashakumaracharita)
- Book.language
- Sanskrit
- Book.author
- Attributed to Daṇḍin
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
26 sectionsContents
- The text
- The Kumaras
- Prologue
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- The ''Dashakumaracharita'' proper
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- Epilogue
- Authorship and relationship with the ''Avantisundarī''
- Relationship with the ''Avantisundarī''
- Editions and commentaries
- Historical research
- Criticism and analysis
- Bibliography
- External links
- References
Dashakumaracharita (The narrative of ten young men, IAST: Daśa-kumāra-Carita, Devanagari: दशकुमारचरित) is a prose romance in Sanskrit, attributed to Dandin (दण्डी), written in the seventh to eighth centuries CE.
It describes the adventures of ten young men, the Kumaras, who are the sons of princes and royal ministers.
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