Author: Nārāyaṇa
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
"Friendly Advice" by N_r_ya_a and "King Vikrama's Adventures"
Author: Nārāyaṇa
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
The Indianized States of Southeast Asia
Author: George Coedès
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824803681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824803681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
The Hitopadesa
Author: Narayana
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, Narayana weaves a framework for the classic tales, here narrated by animals who quote from and reflect on stories from the Pancatantra and other traditional sources. At once an anthology of folk wisdom and an original and satirical work in its own right, the Hitopadesa has been deeply admired and widely read for more than a thousand years for its humorous and profound reflections on human lives, loves, follies and philosophies.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, Narayana weaves a framework for the classic tales, here narrated by animals who quote from and reflect on stories from the Pancatantra and other traditional sources. At once an anthology of folk wisdom and an original and satirical work in its own right, the Hitopadesa has been deeply admired and widely read for more than a thousand years for its humorous and profound reflections on human lives, loves, follies and philosophies.
The Tribes and Castes of Bengal
Author: Sir Herbert Hope Risley
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Inter-state Relations in Ancient India
Author: Narendra Nath Law
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Jātaka Tales
Author: Henry Thomas Francis
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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A Sanskrit Reader
Author: Charles Rockwell Lanman
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Category : Sanskrit language
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Sanskrit language
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism (from Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber)
Author: Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120807952
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120807952
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195644456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC. This is a thoroughly revised edition, with a substantial new afterword by the author, a revised bibliography and index, and a map showing new archaeological sites.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195644456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
First published by the Clarendon Press in 1961, this authoritative work is based largely on the edicts of Asoka, whose policies are analysed against the background of Mauryan civilization during the third and fourth centuries BC. This is a thoroughly revised edition, with a substantial new afterword by the author, a revised bibliography and index, and a map showing new archaeological sites.