Animal Fables of India: Narayana's Hitopadesha or Friendly Counsel.

Title

en_US Animal Fables of India: Narayana's Hitopadesha or Friendly Counsel.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Francis G. Hutchins

Creator

en_US Hutchins, Francis G. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Ramachandran, A

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:49Z

en_US 1993-12

en_US 1985

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1985

Abstract

en_US A lovely sideways book. The introduction is excellent. It advises readers not to swallow any fable whole. Ask rather with each: Who is telling it? And does the story help or mislead? The introduction gives excellent examples of stories that fool people and/or reveal the vice of their tellers. Mistrust the proverbs! (And, boy, are the proverbs plentiful here!) The goals of this work are to help people (originally princes) to listen with care and to speak with finesse. The good notes (265) point to one other vital theme of the Hitopadesha: that how something is said is as important as what is said. I am surprised by the single authorship of this work. I had thought it was a popular collection. Part of the goal is to provide a coherent and inspiriting ethic for rulers. Nice open pages here, with lots of illustrations. The work moves along faster, and with significantly less detail, than Wood's Kalila and Dimna (1982). The fables are listed on 269. Misprint on 94, line 8: forboding.

Identifier

en_US 0935100040 (pbk.)

en_US 1845 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77411

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Amarta Press

en_US West Franklin, NH

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.H5 An 1985 See all items with this value

en_US Hitopadesa See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole