Sekasubhodaya, edited by Prof. Sukumar Sen is an interesting collection of stories of rich human interest of every day life. These popular stories were current in Bengali in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. This undated work is what may be called today a historical narrative as it is projected during the reign of King Laksmansena and very often refer to the king himself. The identity of writer, Halayudha Misra is uncertain. The story of the survival of the ms. is an interesting as the work itself. The language of the book is a mixture of Sanskrit and Bengali. The narrative style is known in French as Chante-fable style is also interesting. The present work will be of interest of scholars of linguistics and folklore. Considering the peculiarity of the language the editor has given an English translation of the text.
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