Written at the court of King Harsha in the seventh century, the romance unfolds as stories within stories, opening with a talking parrot brought before a king. It follows Prince Chandrāpīḍa of Ujjayinī, his love for the Gandharva princess Kādambarī, and a second pair of lovers whose fates are bound up with theirs through death and rebirth.
A landmark of classical Sanskrit prose, left unfinished by Bāṇa and completed by his son, in Caroline Ridding’s English version. Download the free EPUB.