The Buddhist legent of Jimutavahana is related twice in the course of the Kathasaritsagara and is dramatized in a play called the Nagananda. The first of these works, the title of which means the ‘Ocean-River of Story’, is a production of the 10th or 11th century A.D. It is entirely in verse, founded by its author, Somadeva, on an earlier collection of existing legends related in a work called Vrihat Katha, which goes back to the 2nd century A.D. The ...
