Guṇāḍhya is the Sanskrit name of the sixth-century Indian author of the Bṛhatkathā, a large collection of tales attested by Daṇḍin, the author of the Kavyadarsha...
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recensions necessarily derives directly from Gunadhya, and each may have intermediate versions. Scholars compare Guṇāḍhya with Vyasa and Valmiki even though he...
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Great Narrative") is an ancient Indian epic, said to have been written by Guṇāḍhya in a poorly-understood language known as Paiśācī. The work no longer exists...
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which was based on the now-lost Paishachi-language Brihatkatha by Gunadhya. The Chanakya-Chandragupta legend in these collections features another...
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powers (siddhis) and the art of flying as milk in the pot of the sky. Gunadhya is said to have composed seven massive stories about Vidyadharas, then...
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livelihood. Also many sorts of superstitions had prevailed. Additionally, Gunadhya, the minister of Hala, was the author of Brihatkatha. Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar...
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by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva. Generally believed to derive from Gunadhya's Brhat-katha, written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India.[citation...
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(literally "Big Story"), a large collection of stories in verse, attributed to Gunadhya. It is known of through its adaptations in Sanskrit as the Kathasaritsagara...
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Neetishastra Daṇḍin Daśakumāracarita, Kavyadarsha Dhanayala Bhavisayatta Kaha Gunadhya Bṛhat-Katha Hāla Gaha Sattasai Harsha Vardhana Ratnavali, Nagananda, Priyadarsika...
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In Brihatkathamanjari and Kathasaritsagara, Malyavat is later born as Gunadhya (the author of Brihatkatha, on which these books are based). Kalhana's...
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