Stories from Panchatantra, Book II

Title

en_US Stories from Panchatantra, Book II

Description

en_US Shivkumar

Creator

en_US Shivkumar, K. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bhusan, Reboti

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:52Z

en_US 1997-02

en_US 1976

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1966

Abstract

en_US I have enjoyed this book. It is quaint in its orthography and its not for prime time bookmaking. Where else can one find an address label pasted onto the back of the title page to indicate the American distributor of the book? That is just what you find in the hardbound edition. Five of its six fables are familiar to me and well told here. New to me is the last, The lion-makers (57), a fine story about common sense. The Ass has no brains has on 14 a strong if simple illustration, in the book's orange-and-brown style, of the ass with his head cut open. The mice that ate iron (25) is about a beam that is hidden, not sold. (Notice the typo on 28: Beam of that kind are difficult to get....) The Brahmin's dream (41) is a delightful elaboration of the basic MM motif, climaxing with the dreaming Brahmin's beating his children and so breaking his atta bowl. This book and its companion volume (Book IV under 1969/78) are among those things that may have wandered a long way to come into this collection.

Identifier

en_US 2283 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77841

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Children's Book Trust

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3 S7 See all items with this value

en_US Panchatantra See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole