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Title
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Stories from the Panchatantra
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Pancharatna Series, No. 1004
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: English
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Editor: Anant Pai; Scriptwriters: G.L. Chandiramani, Shyamala Kutty, K. Chandrakant, Luis Fernandes, and Kamala Chandrakant
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Creator
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Pai, Anant
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Contributor
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Fowler, Jeffrey
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:58:59Z
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2009-03
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2000
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:58:59Z
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Date Issued
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1998
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Abstract
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The book is apparently divided into the five tantras, or systems, and each tantra has a writer and illustrator. The five are: The Jackal and the War Drum, The Brahmin and the Goat, How the Jackal ate the Elephant, Crows and Owls, and The Dullard and Other Stories. These are very much the stories I have come to know in the Panchatantra tradition. There are some good specific touches here. In TT, the tortoise's utterance to the townsfolk is What is all the excitement about? Me? The monkey catches his leg, not his genitals, in the tree trunk when the wedge falls out. Here he dies over the incident. Many animals cook their prey over fires. The donkey that stupidly comes back to the lion a second time has, according to the jackal, neither ears nor heart, or he would not have been so stupid. The last three divisions between books are marked by advertisements for India Book House publications. New to me is The Noble Enemy in the Crows and Owls section. There are not three different kinds of fish (wise, clever, and stupid) but only wise frogs and stupid fish. The colored covers are shrivelling up. Reprinted in 2000.
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Identifier
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9788175081451
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6748 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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India Book House Limited
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Mumbai
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Subject
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PN6790.I42 S766 2000
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Panchatantra
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole