Twenty Two Goblins by Dandin (c.6th cent – c. 6th cen) and Somadeva Bhatta (11th cen), translated by Arthur William Ryder (1877 – 1938)
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Overview: These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst.
- This work is taken form baital pachisi and One of its oldest recensions is found incorporated in the Kathā-Sarit-Sāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Story"), a work in Sanskrit compiled in the 11th century by Somadeva.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (Devanagari, "Ocean of the Streams of Stories") is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold in Sanskrit by a Shaiva Brahmin named Somadeva.
Nothing is known about the author other than that his father’s name was Ramadevabatta. The work was compiled for the entertainment of the queen Suryamati, wife of king Anantadeva of Kashmir (r. 1063-81).
It consists of 18 books of 124 chapters and approximately 22,000 ślokas (distichs) in addition to prose sections. The śloka consists of 2 half-verses of 16 syllables each. Thus, syllabically, the Kathāsaritsāgara is approximately equal to 66,000 lines of iambic pentameter; by comparison, John Milton’s Paradise Lost weighs in at 10,565 lines. All this pales in comparison to the (presumably legendary) 700,000 ślokas of the lost original Brihatkatha. The principal tale is the narrative of the adventures of Naravahanadatta, son of the legendary king Udayana. A large number of tales are built around this central story, making it the largest existing collection of Indian tales. It also contains early recensions of the Panchatantra in Book 10; and the Vetālapañcaviṃśati, or Baital Pachisi, in Book 12.
The Kathāsaritsāgara is generally believed to derive from Gunadhya’s lost Brihatkatha written in the lost Paisaci dialect. But the Kashmirian (or "Northwestern") Brihatkatha that Somadeva adapted may be quite different from the Paisaci ur-text, as at least 5 apparent descendants of Gunadhya’s work exist — all quite different in form and content, the best-known (after the Kathāsaritsāgara itself) probably being the Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha of Budhasvamin from Nepal. Like the Panchatantra, tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara (or its related versions) travelled to many parts of the world.
Genre: Audiobooks, Classics, Folklore, Sanskrit literature, India.
Twenty Two Goblins
- Dandin author
Somadeva Bhatta author
Arthur William Ryder translation
KirksVoice narrator
Published by librivox. 2012. Running Time: 3:47:23
- 00 – Introduction – time 00:04:42
01 – Chapter 01 – First Goblin – time 00:15:48
02 – Chapter 02 – Second Goblin – time 00:05:29
03 – Chapter 03 – Third Goblin – time 00:11:27
04 – Chapter 04 – Fourth Goblin – time 00:14:13
05 – Chapter 05 – Fifth Goblin – time 00:06:05
06 – Chapter 06 – Sixth Goblin – time 00:06:22
07 – Chapter 07 – Seventh Goblin – time 00:13:07
08 – Chapter 08 – Eighth Goblin – time 00:06:49
09 – Chapter 09 – Ninth Goblin – time 00:04:43
10 – Chapter 10 – Tenth Goblin – time 00:04:25
11 – Chapter 11 – Eleventh Goblin – time 00:18:41
12 – Chapter 12 – Twelfth Goblin – time 00:07:11
13 – Chapter 13 – Thirteenth Goblin – time 00:07:17
14 – Chapter 14 – Fourteenth Goblin – time 00:10:43
15 – Chapter 15 – Fifteenth Goblin – time 00:23:25
16 – Chapter 16 – Sixteenth Goblin – time 00:06:17
17 – Chapter 17 – Seventeenth Goblin – time 00:10:48
18 – Chapter 18 – Eighteenth Goblin – time 00:14:12
19 – Chapter 19 – Nineteenth Goblin – time 00:11:02
20 – Chapter 20 – Twentieth Goblin – time 00:06:05
21 – Chapter 21 – Twentyfirst Goblin – time 00:05:46
22 – Chapter 22 – Twentysecond Goblin – time 00:08:33
23 – Conclusion – time 00:04:13
About:
- Daṇḍin is a 6th-7th century Sanskrit author of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Although he produced literature on his own, most notably the Daśakumāracarita, first translated in 1927 as Hindoo Tales, or The Adventures of the Ten Princes, he is best known for composing the Kāvyādarśa (‘Mirror of Poetry’), the handbook of classical Sanskrit poetics, or Kāvya.
NOTE:
- See also by Dandin here: The Adventures of Ten Princes
See also The Books here: Ocean of the Streams of Story
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- Mirror:
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