Hindu Fairy Tales
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Sharar, Dewan
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1936
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The thirty-five stories presented here are taken from the Panchatantra, Ramayana, and Mahabharata. There are some twelve full-page colored illustrations listed at the front, and there are frequent smaller black-and-white illustrations scattered in the text. I recognize several of the stories. "The Fat Mouse" (13). It is a sequence story. The mouse has to ask perhaps eight parties to get the help that she wants. Her problem was that she had eaten too much to get through the granary hole. "The Jackal and the Drum" (19) is quickly told. Readers of the "Panchatantra" will notice two differences, however. First, these stories are told individually rather than in some organized whole. And the drum is a favorite possession of this jackal. A sniff of its parchment's odor leads him to destroy what he has enjoyed. I guess that perhaps the first eight stories are fables. "The Jackal and the Camel" (35); "The Faithful Mongoose" (41); and "The Jar of Barley-Meal" (43) are standard offerings that I recognize. The blue cloth front cover sports apparently a single running figure with two heads and four arms!
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George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
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10625 (Access ID)