பிரகத்கதை
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 [[File:BK relations.svg|thumb|upright=2.5|Relationships of chief characters in the ''Brihatkatha'' (as evidenced by the derived texts ''Brihatkathashlokasamgraha'', ''Brihatkathamanjari'', and ''Kathasaritsagara'').]]
 [[File:Gunadhya legend.svg|thumb|upright=2|Major characters and path of Shiva's story in the legend of Gunadhya, as told in the first Book of the ''Kathasaritsagara'' (Ocean of Rivers of Story).&lt;ref&gt;Lacôte 1923, pp 22-25.&lt;/ref&gt;]]
 
 '''பிரகத்கதை''' ('''''Bṛhatkathā''''') [[கிபி]] 7 அல்லது 8 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டில் [[குணாதித்தியர்]]  எனும் கவிஞர் [[பைசாசம்|பைசாச]] மொழியில் இயற்றிய பெரிய கதைகள் கொண்ட காவிய நூலாகும். தற்போது இந்நூல் கிடைக்கப்பெறவில்லை எனினும், இந்நூலைத் தழுவி [[கொங்குவேளிர்]] எனும் சமண முனிவர் தமிழ் மொழியில் [[பெருங்கதை]] கதை நூலை இயற்றியுள்ளார்.
 
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 ==இதனையும் காண்க==
 * [[குணாதித்தியர்]]
 * [[பைசாசம்]]
 * [[கதாசரிதசாகரம்]]
 
 ==மேற்கோள்கள்==
 *{{cite book
  | title=Essay on Gunādhya and the Brhatkathā
  | first1=Felix
  | last1=Lacôte
  | first2=A. M. (translator)
  | last2=Tabard
  | date=1923
  | location=Bangalore City
  | publisher=Bangalore Press
  }} (reprint, from the ''Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society'', of Tabard's translation of Lacôte 1908: {{Internet Archive|Lacote1908|Essai sur Guṇāḍhya et la Bṛhatkathā}})
 * {{cite book
  | title=The Bṛhatkathā: A Reconstruction from Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha, Peruṅkatai and Vasudevahiṃḍi
  | first=Donald
  | last=Nelson
  | date=1974
  | publisher=University of Chicago
  }} (PhD Dissertation)
 *{{cite journal
  | title=Bṛhatkathā Studies: The Problem of an Ur-text
  | first=Donald
  | last=Nelson
  | journal=Journal of Asian Studies
  | volume=XXXVII
  | issue=4
  | date=August 1978
  | publisher=Association for Asian Studies
  | pages=663–676
  | doi=10.2307/2054369
  | jstor=2054369
  }}
 *{{cite book
  | title=The Ocean of Story, being C.H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story)
  | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.180066
  | year=1924
  | last=Penzer
  | first=N. M.
  | author-link=Norman Mosley Penzer
  | publisher=Chas. J. Sawyer
  | location=London
  }} [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein01somauoft Vol I], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein02somauoft Vol II], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein03somauoft Vol III], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein04somauoft Vol IV], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein05somauoft Vol V], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein06somauoft Vol VI], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein07somauoft Vol VII], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein08somauoft Vol VIII], [https://archive.org/details/oceanofstorybein09somauoft Vol IX], {{Internet Archive|id=oceanofstorybein10somauoft|name=Vol X}}, or as [https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/kathasaritsagara-the-ocean-of-story proofread HTML eBook Volume 1-9], including thousands of notes and large appendixes.
 * {{cite book
  | title=A Study of the Peruṅkatai: an authentic version of the story of Udayana
  | first=R.
  | last=Vijayalakshmy
  | date=1981
  | publisher=International Institute of Tamil Studies
  | location=Madras
  }}
 * {{cite book|last=Winternitz|first=Moriz|author-link=Moriz Winternitz|title=History of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ql0BmInD1c4C&amp;pg=PA346|date=1 January 1985|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0056-4}}
 
 
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