During Satavahana period Gunadhya sat down to the story mammoth narrated by Kanabhuti, life listened to. He wrote seven lakh stories in his own blood in colloquial paisachi prakrit. The king is a lover of classical Sanskrit refused dedication. Gunadhya was desperated. He kindled fire and offered stories to the fire God. He, his disciples and all life animate and inanimate shed tears. By the time the King came to know this, six lakh stories were consumed by fire. The King ran up and saved one lakh stories. That is the story Brihatkatha left to us.