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IV.10; IV.11 The king cobra and the ants III.5 The cobra and the greed for the gold coins 285D [12] III.6 The golden bird III.7 The hunter and the dove's sacrifice III.4 III.8 The old merchant and his young wife III.6 121D III.9 I.6 The thief, the demon, and a Brahmin III.7 III.5 121E III.10 The tale of two snakes III.11
The story of the Blue Jackal known through oral transmission doesn't vary much from one part of India to another. Although the creature is known variously as Chandru, Neelaakanth or Neela Gidhar (literally, Blue Jackal). The most common version [1] is told like this:
A Brahmin (a member of the priesthood class) passes a tiger in a trap. The tiger pleads for his release, promising not to eat the Brahmin. The Brahmin sets him free but no sooner is the tiger out of the cage then he says he is going to eat the Brahmin, going back on his promise. The Brahmin is horrified and tells the tiger how unjust he is.
India has a long history of board games. You hear about these from the times of the Mahabharata and the Mughal empire. Some of the popular board games that originated from Indian Traditional games include Chess ( Chaturanga ), Ludo ( Pachisi ) and Snakes and Ladders (Moksha-Patamu).
According to Niklas Bengtsson, even though India being the exclusive original source of animal fables is no longer taken seriously, the ancient classic Panchatantra, "which new folklore research continues to illuminate, was certainly the first work ever written down for children, and this in itself means that the Indian influence has been ...
The Real Mother (Indian folktale) The Three Princes of Serendip; The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal; The Tortoise and the Birds; Tulisa, the Wood-Cutter's Daughter; The Turtle Prince (folktale) Tutinama; The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Murray B. Emeneau considers the migration of this story, through its steps from India to Wales, as "one of the best authenticated cases of such diffusions of folk-tales". [10] It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 178A. [4] The story occurs in all versions of the Panchatantra, as well as the later Sanskrit works Hitopadesha [11] and the ...
The Frog and the Nightingale is a poem written by the Indian poet Vikram Seth in 1994. It is a fable about a frog and a nightingale. It was originally published by Evergreen Publications, and was later used by the Ministry of Education in India as a poem for school students. It has been in the Class 10th CBSE English text book.