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Title
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A Treasury of Indian Fables
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Description
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First Jaico Impression
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Compiled and Edited by P.V. Ramaswami Raju
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Creator
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Raju, P.V. Ramaswami
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Contributor
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Gould, F. Carruthers
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:12:09Z
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2022-03
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2016
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:12:09Z
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Date Issued
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2016
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Abstract
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This volume nowhere seems to admit that it is a republication of a book first done in 1897. Our collection has a copy from 1901 with the simpler title "Indian Fables." There are just over 100 fables here, few of which seem to come from the usual Indian sources: "Panchatantra" and "Kalila and Dimna." These are genuine fables, though not always of rare quality. Frequently the moral is delivered within the fable as an endomythium, pronounced by one of the characters. I have read the first ten of the fables. In the very first, a glow-worm about to be eaten by a daw asks if the daw would rather not eat all of the glow-worms. She proceeds to lead him to a fire to encourage him to eat the glow-worms emerging from the fire. The daw does, only of course to burn his mouth. The glow-worm proclaims as the fable ends "Wickedness yields to wisdom!" There is a T of C at the beginning of the book.
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Identifier
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12810 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Jaico Publishing House
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Mumbai, India
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Subject
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India