《Daśakumāracarita》(English spelling)

Japanese: 《Daśakumāracarita》(英語表記)Dasakumaracarita
《Daśakumāracarita》(English spelling)

…Years of birth and death unknown. His biography is unclear, but he is famous for his prose fantasy novel Daśakumāracarita (The Tale of the Ten Princes). The story is based on the adventures of ten noblemen, contains many interesting anecdotes, and describes the social conditions of medieval India in detail, so it is called a novel of manners or a rogue novel. …

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Japanese:

…生没年不詳。伝記は明らかでないが,散文の伝奇小説《ダシャクマーラチャリタDaśakumāracarita(十王子物語)》の作者として名高い。この物語は10人の貴公子たちの冒険奇談を主題とし,興味深い多くの挿話を含み,中世インドの社会状態を詳しく描写しているので,風俗小説とか悪党小説などとよばれている。…

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