Kathasaritsagara, a famous literary work, was originally composed in which of the following languages?

Kathasaritsagara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends, fairy tales, and folk stories. It was compiled and recast in Sanskrit by a Kashmiri Shaivite scholar named Somadeva to divert the mind of Queen Suryamati, wife of King Ananta of Kashmir. The work is largely based on Gunadhya's Brihatkatha, which was originally written in the lost Paisaci dialect/Prakrit language.