Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t19.21

v2.c10.s2.t19.21

In the beginning of the novel, there are 20 prologues praising gods and teachers, and also explaining explicitly the author's literary views. The main body of the novel is not divided into different chapters but makes good use of the narrative structure that one story is implied in another. Kādambarī has complicated and puzzling plots and finely sculptured literary form with a massive use of lengthy compound words as well as the combination of partial tones, words or phrases with double meaning, metaphor, exaggeration and symbolic means, and lengthy compound words and adjectives. It is a huge literary masterpiece that is difficult to understand.