Der freundliche Hirt: Indische Tierfabeln frei nach Narajanas Hitopadesa

Title

en_US Der freundliche Hirt: Indische Tierfabeln frei nach Narajanas Hitopadesa

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Gerhard Kahlo

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Finke-Poser, Lieselotte

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:43Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 1952

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1952

Abstract

en_US This set of twenty fables begins with a narration I had not known before. The king and queen dispute whether their son should have a teacher. The king decides to have a shepherd teach him. The queen is angry and puts clever questions to the shepherd, which he answers even more cleverly. His first story for the prince is the familiar story of the flying net. In this version, the crow offers advice to the trapped flock to work together. By the way, in keeping with Indian tradition, such advice usually is delivered in verse in this book. Next, a wolf asks a wanderer to help him raise a treasure from the bottom of the pond; the wanderer wades in and the wolf attacks and overcomes him. A fox tricks a deer into eating a farmer's grass, and soon the farmer has trapped the deer. When the farmer comes to kill him, the deer plays dead, the farmer first unties him, the dear runs away, and the farmer in trying to strike him strikes instead the fox. The basic story of ox and lion from Kalila and Dimna is next. These two are here foxes, not jackals. Both are evil here, and both are demoted from keepers of the royal food, while the ox is promoted. Next is the monkey trapped in the split log. An ass brays to warn his miller master of a thief when the dog is too lazy to do it. The thief runs, and the master awakes and beats the ass. Undank ist der Welt Lohn. A lion is bothered by a mouse in his cave; he invites a cat, who rids him of the mouse. Then the lion reflects that he cannot let this cat live and talk about his weakness. He encloses the cat and starves her. After a break for the frame narrative, there is the story of the stolen bell that people have made into a ghost. A young girl distracts monkeys with apples, gets the bell, and takes it to the ruler. An apparently embracing statue with jeweled eyes turns into a machine for capturing a thief when he tries to steal those eyes. Next is the story of the flying necklace used by birds to rid themselves of a snake. Regulated Sacrifice is next, with a wolf rather than a lion the ruler who gets duped by a clever rabbit. Then Blue Fox and Talkative Tortoise. How nice to encounter old friends! A few last fables include Der Dumme Zauberer, who keeps turning the pursued animal into a larger pursuer, until a Tiger eats him! Good line drawings, several to a fable.

Identifier

en_US 7802 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83057

Publisher

en_US Verlag Ernst Wunderlich

en_US Leipzig

Subject

en_US PZ34.2 .K35 1952 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