The Origin and the Development of the Brhatkatha

梵天经（BK）的原始文本被认为是传奇诗人古那提亚（Gunadhya）写的，已经丢失了。这一著名的典籍中剩下的是后来的一些修订本，如《梵经》、《梵经》、《洛卡萨姆格哈》和《瓦苏德瓦辛德》。这些汉堡王的现存版本的比较研究在上述项目由我做了充分的阐述Gunadhya宏大的故事”的起源和发展,以及相互关系的几种不同的文本tradictions BK在我看来最BK的原始文本,或者至少所有现存的原型版本的BK降临,被分为5个部分,即,Pltha Mukha, Pratimukha,舍利子和Upasamhara。此外，第四部分叫做舍利，它构成了整个作品的中心部分，似乎由大约二十六个小节组成，每个小节都是关于Naravahanadatta王子和一个特定的美丽少女的婚礼。在现存的BK版本中，它是Slokasamgraha和Vasudevahindi，它们是我试图恢复Gunadhya构图的原始框架的基本材料。

The original text of the Brhatkatha (BK) ascribed to the legendary poet named Gunadhya had, already been lost. What remains of this famous collection of fables consists of some later redactions, such as the Brhatkatha manjari, The Kathasaritsagara, the Slokasamgraha, and the Vasudevahinde. The comparative study of these extant versions of the BK conducted by me in the above-mentioned project has shed ample light on the origin and development of Gunadhya's Grand Story", as well as on the mutual relationship of several different textual tradictions of the BK In my opinion the most original text of the BK, or at least the prototype from which all the extant versions of the BK are descended, had been divided into five sections, i.e. Pltha, Mukha, Pratimukha, Sarira and Upasamhara. Further, the fourth section called Sarira which constituted the central part of the entire composition seems to have consisted of about twenty-six subsections called lambhas, each dealing with wedding of prince Naravahanadatta with a particular fair maiden. Among the extant versions of the BK it is the Slokasamgraha and the Vasudevahindi which served as the basic materials for my attempt to restore the original framework of Gunadhya's composition.