Description
The Sanscrit work entitled ‘‘Dasakumaracharitam, or the Adventures of Ten Princes,” though printed more than twenty- five years ago, has not, as far as I can ascertain, been translated into any European language. The exact date of the composition of the “Dasakumaracharitam” is not known. It is supposed to have been written about the end of the eleventh century, and was left unfinished by the author; but as the story of the last narrator is almost finished, not much could have been wanting to complete the work, and the reader may easily imagine what the conclusion would have been. At the time when the original work was written, India appears to have been divided into a large number of small kingdoms or principalities, the rulers of which are here termed “Raja’’ a word almost adopted into our language, but which I have rendered by the equivalent and more familiar term “King.”
