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# Kathasaritsagara 2.0.1

Kathāsaritsāgara 2.0.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.0.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.2.0.1)

idaṃ gurugirīndrajāpraṇayamandarāndolanāt  
purā kila kathāmṛtaṃ haramukhāmbudherudgatam /  
prasahya rasayanti ye vigatavighnalabdhardhayaḥ  
puraṃ dadhati vaibudhīṃ bhuvi bhavaprasādena te //

> May the water of Śiva's sweat, fresh from the embrace of Gauri, which the god of love when afraid of the fire of Śiva's eye, employs as his aqueous weapon, protect you.  
> — Charles Henry Tawney 1880, The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story

### [2.0.1.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.2.0.1.p1)

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### [2.0.1.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.2.0.1.p2)

prathamas taraṅgaḥ /

## Translations (1)

- [The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara~en-tawney.2.1.p1) — Charles Henry Tawney 1880, English

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