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A Treasury of Indian Fables
- Title
- en_US A Treasury of Indian Fables
- Description
- en_US First Jaico Impression
- Compiled and Edited by P.V. Ramaswami Raju
- Creator
- en_US Raju, P.V. Ramaswami See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Gould, F. Carruthers
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:09Z
- 2022-03
- en_US 2016
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:09Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2016
- Abstract
- en_US This volume nowhere seems to admit that it is a republication of a book first done in 1897. Our collection has a copy from 1901 with the simpler title "Indian Fables." There are just over 100 fables here, few of which seem to come from the usual Indian sources: "Panchatantra" and "Kalila and Dimna." These are genuine fables, though not always of rare quality. Frequently the moral is delivered within the fable as an endomythium, pronounced by one of the characters. I have read the first ten of the fables. In the very first, a glow-worm about to be eaten by a daw asks if the daw would rather not eat all of the glow-worms. She proceeds to lead him to a fire to encourage him to eat the glow-worms emerging from the fire. The daw does, only of course to burn his mouth. The glow-worm proclaims as the fable ends "Wickedness yields to wisdom!" There is a T of C at the beginning of the book.
- Identifier
- en_US 12810 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Jaico Publishing House
- en_US Mumbai, India
- Subject
- India See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books