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Aik Muhabbat Sau Afsane

Aik Muhabbat Sau Afsane (ایک محبت سو افسانے, "One Love, One Hundred Tales") is a 1951 collection of thirteen Urdu short stories on love by Pakistani writer Ashfaq Ahmad.

Aur Ant Mein Prarthana

Aur Ant Mein Prarthana (और अंत में प्रार्थना) is a Hindi short-story collection by Uday Prakash, written in the kissagoi tradition, where one story is made of many stories.

Brihatkatha

Brihatkatha (बृहत्कथा), "the Great Story," is a lost Indian collection of tales attributed to the poet Gunadhya, composed in Paisachi Prakrit and known today only through later Sanskrit adaptations such as Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara.

Burhi Aair Sadhu

Burhi Aair Sadhu, meaning Grandmother's Tales, is a collection of Assamese folktales compiled by Lakshminath Bezbaruah, first published in 1911 and ranked among the most popular works in Assamese literature.

Divyavadana

The Divyavadana (दिव्यावदान, "Divine Narratives") is a Sanskrit anthology of 38 Buddhist avadana stories, exemplary karma tales, regarded as the first such collection in Buddhist Sanskrit literature.

Golpo Guccho

Golpo Guccho (গল্পগুচ্ছ, "A Bunch of Stories") is the standard collected edition of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories, a core Bengali text gathering 90 of his 95 stories, including "Kabuliwala" and "Postmaster."

Jatakamala

The Jatakamala, also titled Bodhisattvavadanamala, is a Sanskrit collection of 34 jataka tales of the Buddha's previous lives, composed by Aryashura in the 4th century or earlier.

Kathonibari Ghat

Kathanibari Ghat (কাঠনিবাৰী ঘাট) is an Assamese book by Mahim Bora, first published in 1961, known for its title story of a night at a Brahmaputra river station.

Pudhumaipithan Kathaigal

Pudhumaipithan Kathaigal (புதுமைப்பித்தன் கதைகள், "The Stories of Pudumaippithan") is the lifetime collection of 29 short stories by the Tamil writer Pudumaippithan, a pioneer of modern Tamil prose.

Shuka Saptati

Shuka Saptati, "Seventy Tales of the Parrot," is a Sanskrit story collection in which a pet parrot tells tales night after night to keep his mistress faithful until her husband returns.

Siyah Hashiye

Siyah Hashiye (سیاہ حاشیے, "Black Margins") is a 1948 collection of very short sketches by the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, depicting the violence of the 1947 Partition of India.

Sutralankara

The Sūtrālaṅkāra (सूत्रालङ्कार) is a Sanskrit Buddhist collection of ninety moral tales, generally attributed to Aśvaghoṣa and translated into Chinese in the early fifth century.

Volga Se Ganga

Volga Se Ganga (वोल्गा से गंगा) is a collection of twenty historical stories in Hindi by Rahul Sankrityayan, tracing human society from the Volga in 6000 BCE to the Ganga in 1942.

Vyakti Ani Valli

Vyakti Ani Valli (व्यक्ती आणि वल्ली) is a 1962 collection of humorous Marathi character sketches by P. L. Deshpande that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965.