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king of Kashmir
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association with Somadeva
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The court poet to King Ananta of Kashmir, Somadeva apparently was commissioned to compose a cycle of stories to amuse and calm the queen Sūryamati during a political crisis. He borrowed from an earlier work, now lost, the Bṛhat-katha (“Great Tale”) by the Sanskrit writer Guṇāḍhya, who probably had used…
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