A Lower Ladakhi Version Of The Kesar Saga

The author has been trying to portray the existence of Kesar Saga and its culture and literature through this discourse. As far as we can see at present, the first European, who makes any mention of the existence of the Kesar Saga among Mongolian people, is a German, Peter Simon Pallas, born at Berlin in 1741. He heard of it during his travels in Russian service among the Kalmuks of the Russian Steppes. As long as only the Mongolian version of the Kesar Saga was known, it had to remain undecided whether the saga is of Mongolian or Tibetan origin. Through these publications, the question was now openedup, how the hitherto unknown literary versions of the Kesar Saga and the recently published popular versions were to be reconciled with each other. The book is the product of extensive study of this topic.