Twenty Jataka Tales

Title

en_US Twenty Jataka Tales

Description

en_US Noor Inayat Khan

Creator

en_US Khan, Noor Inayat See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Le Mair, H. Willebeek

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:17Z

en_US 1991-10

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US The tales focus on ingenuity, love, and self-sacrifice. There is a good deal of magic beyond the talking of beasts. All tales end happily ever after. The word order is archaic. In the first tale, the monkey king makes himself the last link in a bridge to save his people at the cost of his life. On 94, the buffalo says of the monkey Why should I make him suffer so that I may be happy? Three fables known to me are TT (41), where the geese initiate the trip and children laugh at the tortoise; The Quarrelsome Quails (115) with its motif of the common lift-off; and The End of the World (125) where the hare hears a fruit fall and manages to stampede all the other animals. The colored cover illustration is more engaging than the black-and-whites for each fable. Now see the audio cassette Jataka Tales (1992) that presents eighteen of these twenty tales.

Identifier

en_US 892813237

en_US 1143 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75928

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. by American International Distribution Corporation

en_US Rochester, VT

Subject

en_US BQ1462.E5 K47 1991 See all items with this value

en_US Jatakas See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole