Author: Nārāyaṇa
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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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
Author: George Coedès
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824803681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
Author: Narayana
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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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.
Author: Sir Herbert Hope Risley
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Maurice 1855-1928 Bloomfield
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015252073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Narendra Nath Law
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Author: Henry Thomas Francis
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: Charles Rockwell Lanman
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Category : Sanskrit language
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Author: Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120807952
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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