Readers will find selections from the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Subandhu's Vasavadatta, bana's kadambari and Harshacharita, not to mention Dandin's Tales of Ten Princes (Dasakumaracharita), and finally the work of the eleventh century Kashmiri poet, Soma Deva's- The Ocean of Streams of Story (Katha Sarit Sagar).