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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: February 2012
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Panchatantra: The Butter-blinded Brahman. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). Inside The Frogs that rode Snakeback. There was once a Brahman named Theodore in a certain town. His wife, being unchaste and a pursuer of other men, was forever making cakes with sugar and butter for a lover, and so cheating her husband. Now one day her husband saw her and said: "My dear wife, what are you cooking? Whereu...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: January 2015
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Saturday, January 31, 2015. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). This story is inserted into The Loss of Friends. There is a city called Growing City on the earth's surface. In it lived a merchant named Strong-Tooth who directed the whole administration. So long as he handled city business and royal business, all the inhabitants were satisfied. Why spin it out? Suppose he minds the king's affairs,. The common people hate him;.
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: Panchatantra: The Loss of Friends
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Thursday, January 9, 2014. Panchatantra: The Loss of Friends. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). The Loss of Friends. The frametale for Book I of the Panchatantra. The first verse runs:. The forest lion and the bull. Were linked in friendship, growing, full;. A jackal then estranged the friends. For greedy and malicious ends. And this is how it happened. Release the money you have earned;. So keep it safely still:. To bear the...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: December 2014
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Manthan Sashthi: Sacrificed to Varuna. This story comes from Sacred Tales of India. By D N. Neogi ( page image. Like all the stories in this curious book, it begins with a religious ceremony, and then there follows a tale which is connected to that ceremony. Is the god of water. Shashthi. Is the goddess of childbirth. Her vahana. Vehicle) is a cat! In some traditions, she is considered to be one of the Matrikas. The Manthan Sashthi Ceremony.
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: Panchatantra: Numskull and the Rabbit
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Friday, February 13, 2015. Panchatantra: Numskull and the Rabbit. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). Numskull and the Rabbit. This story is inserted into The Loss of Friends. 14th-century Egyptian ms. of Kalila-wa-Dimna. In a part of a forest was a lion drunk with pride, and his name was Numskull. He slaughtered the animals without ceasing. If he saw an animal, he could not spare him. A thousand future lives. Consider these fa...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: January 2014
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Thursday, January 9, 2014. Panchatantra: The Sensible Enemy and the Foolish Enemy. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). The Sensible Enemy and the Foolish Enemy. This story is inserted into The Loss of Friends. The truly self-respecting man. Discovers what he is, and can,. Deserves, and dares, and understands. By travelling in foreign lands.". Having adopted this plan, each inserted his gem. in a mouthful of food at dinner t...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: Panchatantra: How the Crow-Hen Killed the Black Snake*
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Friday, February 6, 2015. Panchatantra: How the Crow-Hen Killed the Black Snake*. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). How the Crow-Hen Killed the Black Snake. This story is inserted into The Loss of Friends. From Directorium Humanae Vitae. Yet for all his sorrow over this violence, the poor crow could not desert the old familiar banyan and seek another tree. For. Three cannot be induced to go -. The lion, hero, elephant. Be cro...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: February 2011
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Panchatantra: The Dog Who Went Abroad. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). The Dog Who Went Abroad. Inside Book 4. Loss Of Gains. Then he thought: "Better one's native land, where one lives at peace even in times of famine, and no one picks a quarrel. It is better to return to my own city." Having thus reasoned it through, he returned to his own place. How do the people behave? What do they eat? At th...
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: Panchatantra Index
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Thursday, January 1, 2015. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). Book 1. The Loss of Friends. The jackal Victor attempts subverts the friendship between King Rusty the lion and Lively the bull. The jackal Cheek tells this story to Victor the jackal to show that it is dangerous to meddle in other people's business. The Jackal and the War-Drum. Godly and June; Jackal at the Ram-Fight; Weaver's Wife. The Heron That Liked Crab-Meat.
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India: Panchatantra: The Heron That Liked Crab-Meat
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Ocean of Stories: Tales from India. Monday, February 2, 2015. Panchatantra: The Heron That Liked Crab-Meat. From The Panchatantra of Vishnu Sharma. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder (1925). The Heron That Liked Crab-Meat. This story is inserted into How the Crow-Hen Killed the Black Snake. 14th-century Egyptian ms. of Kalila-wa-Dimna. Now among the fish lived a crab. He drew near and said: "Uncle, why do you neglect today your usual meals and amusements? Uncle," said the crab, "of what nature is the disaster?
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