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Indian Tales - Panchatantra and Hitopadesha


Tales From Panchatantra


Panchatantra, is a collection of five volumes of stories written by a teacher to help instruct the different aspects of kinghood for princes. The five volumes together serve as a manual for a prospective king, to help him in deciding how to rule, how to choose his fellow friends, fellow ministers, how to conduct himself in daily life etc. The collection of stories in Pancha Tantra are a real treat for parents to help them in guiding them towards values in human life. Every story in Pancha Tantra is accompanied by a moral.

The story of Panchatanra itself is an interesting one in that, the intention of writing it was precisely the one mentioned in the previous paragraph, namely, to serve as a manual for a prince to rule as an ideal king. The background story of Panchatantra goes as follows:


Hitopadesha


Is a collection of Sanskrit fables in prose and verse; it is similar to, though distinct from, the Panchatantra.

The Hitopadesa is known to be at least several centuries old. Originally written in Sanskrit, its stories have travelled to several parts of the world.

The work has been translated into most of the major languages of the world. An english translation, rendered by by Sir Edwin Arnold , then Principal of Puna College, Pune, India, was published in London in 1861.


Here we present a series of stories from these volumes.


Story Collection




  1. A Friend in need... A story fom Hitopadesha
  2. The story of the foolish lion and the clever rabbit from The Loss of Friends

  3. The story of the monkey and the crocodile from Loss of Gains

  4. The story of the elephant and the sparrow from the Loss of Friends

  5. The Story of the Blue jackal from The Loss of Friends

  6. The greedy jackal

  7. The heron and the crab

  8. The crows and the serpent

  9. The swan and the owl

  10. The geese and the tortoise

  11. The bird with two necks

  12. The jackal and the drum

  13. The heron, serpent and the mongoose

  14. The mice and the elephants

  15. The cat partridge and the hare

  16. The gold giving serpent

  17. The day dreaming priest

  18. The mongoose and the farmer's wife

  19. The sage's daughter

  20. The moon lake

  21. The fox reared by the lion

  22. The brahmin's gift
  23. The Lion and The Foolish Donkey
 

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