Stories from Panchatantra

Title

en_US Stories from Panchatantra

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US 1987 reprinting

en_US Shivkumar

Creator

en_US Shivkumar, K.

Contributor

en_US Vyas, Anil

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:49Z

en_US 1998-04

en_US 1987

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US This large-format children's book offers some twenty-eight well-told stories with a variety of multi-colored and two-colored illustrations. The story versions and the illustrations follow the patterns set in the series Stories from Panchatantra from Children's Book Trust. The stories even follow in exactly the same order as they do in the three (of five?) of these booklets that I have. The text of The King's Choice (174), is not the same verbatim as Shivkumar's text in his stand-alone booklet in 1971, but it follows the same story line. (Note that this 1971 The King's Choice by Parents' Magazine Press acknowledges Children's Book Trust's copyright on the text.) Thus this version, like the 1971 publication, brings a happy ending to the sad story of the camel's self-sacrifice. The king stops the crow, fox, and leopard from pouncing on the camel just after he has offered himself. Instead, King Lion announces that he will eat all four in the order in which they have offered themselves. When the other three flee, the lion offers the camel his lifelong friendship. Among the helpful illustrations in this book is that of the crocodile weeping underwater (15). The art has a slightly psychedelic cast and coloration. Because I am well acquainted with Kalilah and Dimna, my eye falls here on the stories that are not included there. Thus I enjoy particularly The Musical Donkey (38), The Girl Who Married a Snake (53), The Lion-Makers (78), The Jackal Who Killed No Elephants (82), A Wise Old Bird (143), and The Thief's Sacrifice (150). Here it is an iron beam that one friend leaves with another (59); it is all he has left after raising cash for his travels. And here the crow carries the mouse on his back in The Four Friends (121). In The Brahmin and the Goat (137), the three robbers claim that they see different animals on the Brahmin's shoulders: a dog, a dead calf, and a donkey.

Identifier

en_US 817011117X

en_US 3807 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79149

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Children's Book Trust

en_US New Delhi, India

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3 S5 1979

en_US Panchatantra

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole