Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.320

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.320

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c5.320

DEVADĀSA. A rich Vaiśya extolled much in the Kathāsaritsāgara. He lived in Pāṭaliputra and had married the daughter of a very rich Vaiśya of Pauṇḍravardhana. After father's death Devadāsa lost all his wealth in gambling, and his wife foresook her impecunious husband and returned home.

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Kathāsaritsāgara — Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit