UPSC 2015 CDS II GK Paper

The Dashakuntatacharita or ‘Tales of Ten Princes' was composed by Dandin. It is a prose romance in Sanskrit and describes the adventures of ten young men, the Kumaras, all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers, as narrated by the men themselves. These narratives are replete with accounts of demigods, ghosts, prostitutes, gamblers, intrigues with voluptuous women, astonishing coincidences, cockfights, anthropophagy, sorcery, robberies, murders and wars.