Panchatantra Stories

Title

en_US Panchatantra Stories

Description

en_US Retold by Rashmi Jaiswal

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Mayekar, K.P.

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:25Z

en_US 2013-12

en_US 2001?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001?

Abstract

en_US This mid-sized (7? x 9½) paperback contains 67 numbered fables on 162 pages. There is a T of C on iv. One finds a curious printer's note on the bottom of the title-page. The stories are told here separately; there is no frame story connecting them. I have usually seen The Foolish Monkeys (25) stressing the foolish bird that butted into the monkeys' foolish attempt to make fire from red fruits. I find story #13, The Great Sacrifice, surprising. In it two doves dive into the fire to provide a meal for a hungry hunter. Here is a surprise: 34 is printed backwards! I am surprised to find GGE represented as from the Panchatantra (45). In this version, the wife disagrees with her husband and kills the hen. I am also surprised to find MSA here in the Panchatantra (141). The usual story of the bedbugs here has them try at first not to allow the visiting mosquito to stay (54). The Lion and the Woodcutter is new to me (56). Suspecting the lion's friends -- crow and fox -- means giving up the friendship of the lion. The art of the quarter-page black-and-white illustrations is primitive and graphic. Notice, for example, the snake emerging from the mouth and even stomach of the sleeping prince on 112. I have one other of the four books in this series: Aesop's Fables, and it was published in 2001.

Identifier

en_US 10019 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76015

Publisher

en_US Alka Publications

en_US Mumbai, India

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3J3 2001

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole