Indian Fables

Title

en_US Indian Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Second edition

en_US Collected and Edited by P.V. Ramaswami Raju

Creator

en_US Ramaswami Raju, P.V.

Contributor

en_US Gould, F. Carruthers

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:57Z

en_US 2013-11

en_US 1901

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1901

Abstract

en_US There are 106 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! A monkey shows a mirror to all the beasts, who dislike what they see, shatter the mirror, and proclaim that ignorance is bliss (6). The first edition was done in 1897. There is a T of C at the beginning of the book.

Identifier

en_US 10309 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76297

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Lim.,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN989.I5 R3 1901

en_US India

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole