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Title
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Indische Fabeln
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Language note: German
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Original language: eng
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Selvarajan Yesudian; Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Trudy Steiner
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Creator
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Yesudian, Selvarajan
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Contributor
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Yesudian, Selvarajan
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:55:00Z
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2001-07
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1962
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:55:00Z
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Date Issued
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1962
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Abstract
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128 pages. There is a T of C at the end listing fifty-seven stories. I recognize many of the early stories in this book, often as parallels to well known Aesopic fables. Thus the first presents two friends who encounter a tiger where the Aesopic fable has them meet a bear (11). Mixed in with these clear fables are a number of wisdom stories which follow the pattern of finding a small cause that creates a big effect. A swimming monk finds a rat gnawing on his towel. Dealing with it brings him eventually a home and family and the usual cares of life, as his teacher learns years and years later (12). Elephants who threaten to trample mice go elsewhere and promise never to hurt mice again. Soon one of them is caught, and the mice come and gnaw away the ropes with which he is tied up (26). Amid these stories are others that it would be hard to call fables in the most specific sense, like Die Geburt des Opiums (30) or Die Böse Schlange that lives in a young man's stomach (34). Yesudian's designs present the scene but seem not meant to add anything further.
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Identifier
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6525 (Access ID)
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Language
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ger
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Publisher
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J. Fink Verlag
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Stuttgart
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Subject
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GR305.Y47 1962
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India
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole