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Panchatantra: Smart, The Jackal Book 1: The Loss of Friends Translator: Arthur William Ryder The Panchatantra is a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. Its narrative illustrates, for the benefit of three ignorant princes, the central Hindu principles of nīti. While nīti is hard to translate, it roughly means ...
Kalīla wa-Dimna or Kelileh o Demneh (Arabic: كليلة ودمنة; Persian: کلیله و دمنه) is a collection of fables. The book consists of fifteen chapters containing many fables whose heroes are animals. A remarkable animal character is the lion, who plays the role of the king; he has a servant ox Shetrebah, while the two jackals of ...
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
The prelude narrates the story of how Vishnu Sharma supposedly created the Panchatantra. There was a king called Sudarshan [ citation needed ] who ruled a kingdom, whose capital was a city called Mahilaropya (महिलारोप्य), whose location on the current map of India is unknown. [ 9 ]
The Brahmin and the Mongoose (or The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose) is a folktale from India, and "one of the world's most travelled tales". [1] It describes the rash killing of a loyal animal, and thus warns against hasty action. The story underlies certain legends in the West, such as that of Llywelyn and his dog Gelert in Wales, [1] or ...
Shatranj ke Khiladi. (Redirected from Shatranj ke khiladi) Shatranj Ke Khilari (lit. 'The Chess Players') is a 1924 Hindi short-story written by Munshi Premchand. [1] Premchand also made the Urdu version titled "Shatranj ki bazi".
The Jātaka(Sanskritfor "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinentwhich mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddhain both human and animal form. Jataka stories were depicted on the railings and torans of the stupas. [1][2]According to Peter Skilling, this genre is "one of ...
The children's Chandamama, featured a serial story titled New Tales of Vikram and Betal for many years. As the title suggests, the original premise of the story is maintained, as new stories are told by Vetala to King Vikrama. In the novel, Alif the Unseen, a character named Vikrama the Vampire appears as a jinn. He tells how thousands of years ...