The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story

by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Chapter CXV.

Then king Brahmadatta said to those celestial swans, “How did Muktáphalaketu kill that Vidyuddhvaja? And how did he pass through the state of humanity inflicted on him by a curse, and regain Padmávatí? Tell me this first, and afterwards you shall carry out your intentions.” When those[1] birds heard this, they began to relate the story of Muktáphalaketu as follows.