Santanukulanandan

The novel goes back to the early civilisation of the Brahmaputra valley, the Lauhitya of old Kamarupa, to tell how the river arose and came by its name. Its story moves through several linked strands, carried mostly by the conversations of its characters: the hermitage of the sage Bhargava on the riverbank, the city of Ujjayini, and Nalanda in the days of its head Shilabhadra and the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang. Through the teacher Shantarakshita it reaches Tibet and the spread of Buddhism across India, Nepal and Tibet, showing how many peoples, languages and faiths of the valley grew into one shared culture.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

250 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

India

First published

2005 by Banalata

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9788126046645 (Sahitya Akademi, India)

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