Pancha Tantra: Five Wise Lessons: A Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables

Title

en_US Pancha Tantra: Five Wise Lessons: A Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables

en_US Great Classics of India

Description

en_US First printing

en_US Krishna Dharma (Kenneth Anderson)

Creator

en_US Krishna Dharma See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rupa, Kurma

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:21Z

en_US 2011-04

en_US 2004

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 2004

Abstract

en_US The back cover claims that this is the only non-scholarly version available. A key to this edition occurs in the Author's Note on 199: For the purpose of making it more readable to my intended audience, I have left out many of the moral instructions found in the original. I have enjoyed reading the early pages of this recent Panchatantra. It follows this classic's usual division into five books. Short morals are set off and centered. The two jackals are named Careful and Crafty. The story's starting incident is that the bull Frisky breaks a leg, and then it heals. He more usually gets thoroughly stuck in mud. His bellowing is over the joy of freedom, not over loneliness. I think that the author has a good point in reducing the philosophizing poetry that we sometimes find distracting as we move through the narrative. I look forward to reading this paperback through during the next fable course I teach; the story itself is only 198 pages long here. There are occasional simple black-and-white full-page line drawings regularly along the way.

Identifier

en_US 9781887089456

en_US 7222 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82496

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Torchlight Publishing

en_US Badger, CA

Subject

en_US PK3741.P4 K74 2004 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