Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends

Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends PDF Author: KAMALA CHANDRAKANT
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184820593
Category : Children's literature, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render counsel on ethical worldly-wise conduct. The characters are living beings including humans and animals in the wild. The latter too are endowed with the reason and emotions of human beings. Thereby they come to represent types of human nature and behavior and one can draw morals from the stories. In this collection, a tiger finds a gold bangle with which he allures a traveler to cross the river; stuck in mire, the greedy man falls easy prey to the tiger. In another story, a jackal feigns friendship with a deer who despite warnings from a wise crow joins the jackal and meets with a tragedy. An old blind vulture is offered shelter by birds in the hollow of a tree. He protects their fledglings. A cat pleads for living with them and the vulture agrees. The cat finishes the fledglings one by one and goes away. The birds suspecting the vulture kill him. Moral: Do not give shelter to the unknown. This collection is treasure house of such stories.

Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends

Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends PDF Author: KAMALA CHANDRAKANT
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184820593
Category : Children's literature, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render counsel on ethical worldly-wise conduct. The characters are living beings including humans and animals in the wild. The latter too are endowed with the reason and emotions of human beings. Thereby they come to represent types of human nature and behavior and one can draw morals from the stories. In this collection, a tiger finds a gold bangle with which he allures a traveler to cross the river; stuck in mire, the greedy man falls easy prey to the tiger. In another story, a jackal feigns friendship with a deer who despite warnings from a wise crow joins the jackal and meets with a tragedy. An old blind vulture is offered shelter by birds in the hollow of a tree. He protects their fledglings. A cat pleads for living with them and the vulture agrees. The cat finishes the fledglings one by one and goes away. The birds suspecting the vulture kill him. Moral: Do not give shelter to the unknown. This collection is treasure house of such stories.

Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends

Hitopadesha: Choice Of Friends PDF Author: Editor: Anant Pai Author: Kamala Chandrakant Illustrator: Jeffrey Fowler
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ISBN: 9788175080584
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Languages : en
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Hitopadesha (Good Counsel) is an 11-12th century Sanskrit collection of stories in four chapters instead of five in the Panchatantra on which it is based. Each chapter contains a string of stories, one emerging from the other, with each designed to render

Tanaji

Tanaji PDF Author: MEENA TALIM
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 818482159X
Category : Biographical comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Tanaji Malasure was only a boy when he took an oath to support his friend, Shivaji, in fighting the Mughals. Along with their small band of faithful followers they became a thorn in the side of the Emperor Aurangazeb as they conquered fort after fort. Tanaji's prowess was tested when he was entrusted with the near impossible task of capturing Kondana Fort. The present story is based on Shivasmruti by G.S. Sardesai and Shivaji the Maratha – His Life and Times by Sir H.G. Rawlinson.

Surjya sen

Surjya sen PDF Author: SHALINI SRINIVASAN
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184825692
Category : Biographical comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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On the night of April 18, 1930, 'Masterda' Surjya Sen, his five friends, and an army of young boys went into battle in Chittagong, ready to die for freedom and dignity. They attacked the British armouries and cut Chittagong off from the rest of British-ruled India. Masterda hoisted the Indian tricolour and declared an Indian Republic. But they were unlucky. One of the armouries had guns but no ammunition. And the British were ready to retaliate. How long could this ill-equipped and tiny group hold on? Surjya Sen's battle pitted a small handful against the mighty British Empire. Their extraordinary gesture of courage and defiance inspired other freedom fighters, long after they were gone.

Banda bahadur

Banda bahadur PDF Author: KHUSHWANT SINGH
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184820445
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Inspired by Guru Gobind Singh, Banda Bahadur led the Sikh rebellion against the Mughal Empire. For eight years, he ravaged the whole of North India. The havoc he created in the Indo-Gangetic plain was of such magnitude that the Mughals could never restore their administration. Invasions by the Persian tyrant, Nadir Shah and the Afghan, Ahmed Shah Abdali hastened the decline of the once mighty empire. This helped the Sikhs to emerge as the rulers of Punjab. Banda Bahadur thus paved the way for the foundation of the Sikh Kingdom.

Kochunni

Kochunni PDF Author: RADHA M. NAIR
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184824947
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Kochunni ran away from home, to avoid living with his thieving parents. But wherever he went, people insisted on treating the little boy as a thief himself. Kochunni grew up deteremined to make his mark on the world and to fight injustice and prejudice. He became a highwayman, a daring Robin Hood-like figure who robbed the rich and gave the poor. He liked to target the most arrogant and cruel landlords and teach them a lesson. With his martial skills and his daring, Kochunni managed to outwit everyone. Kochunni's sense of mischief makes him the subject of many folk tales in Kerala.

Parashurama

Parashurama PDF Author: KAMALA CHANDRAKANT
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184823444
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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It was a time when the earth was ravaged with violence and bloodshed. The Kshatriya kings had forgotten their duty to rule with compassion. Instead, they subdued the people by unleashing a reign of brutal terror. At such a time the sixth incarnation of Vishnu was born. Parashurama, axe-weilding warrior-saint, strode across the age to destroy evil and liberate good.

Angulimala

Angulimala PDF Author: SUBBA RAO
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8189999419
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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The bandit wore a gruesome garland of fingers of the men he had killed. As his garland of fingers grew longer strong men cowered in fright. The bandit was invincible - until he met a gentle monk - Buddha. Thus darkness came face to face with light and at last the restless bandit found peace.

kalidasa

kalidasa PDF Author: YAGYA SHARMA
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184820577
Category : Biographical comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Kalidas owes his fame to his Sanksrit play Abhijnana-Shakuntala (Shakuntala Recognised by the Token Ring), the long epic poem Kumara-Sambhava (Birth of Kumara) and the lyric poem Meghaduta (Cloud Messenger). Kalidasa, who lived some time in the middle of the 4th and early 5th centuries A.D., has left no account of his life. According to popular legend, he owed his ingenuity as much to Goddess Kali’s blessings as to his own talents.

Babasaheb Ambedkar

Babasaheb Ambedkar PDF Author: S. S. REGE
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184821816
Category : Biographical comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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He was from a respectable family, well-educated and a lawyer, yet many Indians thought of him as ‘untouchable’. It was up to BR Ambedkar to teach his ‘depressed’ community to fight the injustices that it faced each day. Hard working and wise, he became the icon of the underprivileged. History, however, will remember him as the architect of India’s Constitution.