Title

Kādambarī

Pandit Work ID

109562

Authors

• Bāṇa Bhaṭṭa
• Bhūṣaṇa Bhaṭṭa

Pandit Author IDs

• 108814
• 109559

Edition Short

Peterson 1889

Edition

• Editor: Peterson, Peter
• Title: Kâdambarî
• Place: Bombay
• Publisher: Government Central Book Depôt
• Series: Bombay Sanskrit Series
• Series Part: No. XXIV
• Year: 1889
• Note: Bombay Sanskrit Series No. XXIV was printed in four forms:
  • 1883: 1st edition, e.g., v.7 contains "viśaty adho"
  • 1885: reset of 1st edition
  • 1889: 2nd revised edition, e.g., v.7 contains "viśatv adho"
  • 1900/1899: third edition in two vols (1900: vol 1, text; 1899: vol 2: intro and notes)

Edition PDFs

• 1889 on Archive
• 1889 on HathiTrust
• 1900 (text) on Archive
• 1899 (intro/notes) on Archive
• 1885 on Archive
• 1885 on HathiTrust
• 1883 on Google Books

Extent

• The complete work is extant.
• The edition contains a complete text.
• The text fills 368 pages in the edition, with no other intervening material.

File Size (KB)

683

Structure

Pūrvabhāga pp. 1–237, Uttarabhāga pp. 239–369.

Work Description

This famous literary work — a romance between two main characters Candrāpīḍa and Kādambarī, plus innumerable side stories — was begun by Bāṇa Bhaṭṭa (570–650 CE) and finished posthumously by his son Bhūṣaṇa Bhaṭṭa (600–660 CE). These two contributions are the so-called Pūrvabhāga (Peterson ed. pp. 1–237) and Uttarabhāga (pp. 239–369), respectively. Peterson's edition, on which this e-text is based, added paragraph breaks as further structure. Later editions and translations also add headers to indicate beginnings of significant portions of the story, but no such headers are used here.

Genres

• Kāvya
• Gadyakāvya

Translations

• English, M.R. Kale, 1924, on Archive
• English, G. Layne, 1991, on GRETIL E-Library

Source Collection

SARIT

Source File Link

bana-kadambari.xml, commit
8ad8588, Feb 1, 2022

Source File License

CC BY-SA 4.0

HANSEL License

CC BY-SA 4.0

Contributors

• Andrew Ollett
• Tyler Neill

Digitization Notes

• (2022-02-01) Andrew Ollett: Initial OCR (using Google Cloud Vision, on 1883 edition), some proofreading, XML markup for SARIT, uploaded to GitHub.
• (2024–2025) Tyler Neill: Second OCR (using two models, on 1885 edition, merged with AI), manual reconciliation of differences relative to previous version, some more proofreading, markup for HANSEL.
• (2026) Tyler Neill: Reorientation toward 1889; third OCR (using Sarvam Vision, on 1889 edition), manual reconciliation of differences.

File Creation Method

I (Tyler Neill) produced this HANSEL edition by first running a PDF of the early 1885 edition (shares readings with 1883) through both Google Cloud Vision OCR (via Skrutable) and Gemini 2.0 Flash (via Dharmamitra). These two OCR outputs were then automatically harmonized using Gemini 2.5 Pro (via direct API and using a custom prompt). This harmonized OCR output was then contrasted (using Meld) against Andrew Ollett's SARIT version based on the 1883 edition, and differences were reconciled individually with reference to the PDF. A year later, I reoriented again to 1889, first OCRing that edition with Sarvam Vision, then manually reconciling differences with Meld again. The text still needs a final proofread.

Text Type

Prose with verse

Word Division Style

Devanāgarī-like (ityevam, not ity evam)

Original Submission Last Updated

2025-07-24

Text Last Updated

2026-08-19

Metadata Last Updated

2026-08-20