Animal fables of India : Narayana's Hitopadesha or Friendly counsel
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TextWest Franklin, NH Amarta Press c1985Description: 269p.; ill.; translator's note; list of fablesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0935100040
- PZ8.2.H5 An 1985
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Translated by Francis G. Hutchins.. Illustrated by A. Ramachandran.
'...the finest rendering of [36 of] India's classic animal fables. Its author, Narayana, apparently lived in eastern India in the ninth century A.D. In order to educate the royal princes, a scholar presents a collection of animal fables set in India....the geographic references that initiate most of the Hitopadesha stories span all of India. Narayana's philosophical breadth is equally impressive. The Hitopadesha is formally intended for the instruction of teenage princes in their duties as rulers and was in fact used in this way as long as kings ruled in India....' --Introduction
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