A Cultural History of the Kathāsaritsāgara in Keywords, Complementary to the General Index in vol. X of Tawney & Penzer's Translation
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"The Śaiva brahmin Somadeva's Kathāsaritsāgara (KSS, composed between 1063-1081 C.E. according to Winternitz ..., is an exhaustive source of information about many aspects of traditional Indian life which to a great extent may have irretrievably ended with the dissolution of native kingdoms and their integration into the Indian republic. It is well-known through Charles Tawney & Norman Penzer's translation, .... In order to help finding motifs and parallels, a complementary index of [the Kathāsaritsāgara...] may therefore not appear superfluous, ..."