Stories from the Panchatantra: Ancient Stories with Moral Values or Fables

Title

en_US Stories from the Panchatantra: Ancient Stories with Moral Values or Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Retold by Esther Mary Lyons

Creator

en_US Lyons, Esther Mary

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:22Z

en_US 2002-03

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here a splashy red cover leads to twenty Panchatantra fables. A frame story on 7 and 51 gives the context. Children ask a teacher for stories, and she obliges with the Panchatantra. She seems solicitous along the way to explain old Indian customs to the children. One of them comments on 51 that life has changed since then and that her teacher helps to explain the differences well as she reads. There are simple black-and-white designs, usually two to each story. New to me is The Singing Donkey (27). The donkey thief is so pleased with his stolen cucumbers that he must sing, and of course his singing draws the night-watchman. The fox lures the ass to the lion by promising him a bride (54). To get him back the second time, he declares that the creature he encountered in the cave was his bride. The fox eats the ass' ears and brain and explains later that he never had any, if he was foolish enough to come back a second time. Less well known is The Cobra-Son and the Daughter-in-Law (57); the wife is clever enough to burn the cobra box during a brief interlude in which her husband is human. The rabbit and partridge come to the cat for judgment over the home that the latter had left and the former moved into. The cat eats both. Here it is a mosquito that barges in on the good life of the bugs living in the king's bed (109). The pictures of the cobra man on 58 and 62 are too good to miss! Notice the typo Offcourse for Of course on 51. There is confusion in line 5 of 98. The lion, not the camel, needs to speak this line, as the next paragraph presumes.

Identifier

en_US 817386246X

en_US 4442 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80111

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Books for All: Low Price Publications

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3 L96 2002

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole