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	Publisher: D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
	Author Ganeshji Jethabhai
	Language: English
	Pages: 144
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	9.5x6.5 inch
	Weight 450 gm
	Edition: 2024
	ISBN: 9788124612408
	HCC830

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About the Book India is well-known for her cultural and literary traditions, which are normally alien to the West of the twentieth century. Her wide literature is a huge treasure house. So also are her folk tales which showcase her cultural milieu. For generations, the legends of India remained vigorously active by transferring from lip to lip in the absence of any print medium, and this book is an English translation of ninety-three tales selected from a Gujarati volume, "Kautakamāļa" or "Bodhavacana", which appeared first in 1885. This book is expected to give an insight to the then West into the cultures, customs and traditions of the East through its folk tales. It will promote a larger acquaintance of the West with Indian moorings, resulting in a heartier appreciation of, the native thoughts and native customs, the practical wisdom and ripe experience. It shows considerable skill in shifting and arranging the rude materials collected from many sources and in investigating half-forgotten local chronicles of wit and humour. It also satirizes the faults and extravagances of the then Indian village community to a certain extent. The book should make an interesting and amusing reading for the English-knowing people interested in Indian folklore.

Preface IT IS HARDLY necessary to say that from very early times India has been well known for the richness and variety of all the branches of its literature. Its legendary lore is particularly wide and varied and presents us with a vivid picture of the actions, projects, thoughts, follies and virtues of the human race. In olden days the means of imparting instruction were very limited. The art of printing was unknown and there were no schools of the modern type; hence various ways were invented for educating children by word of mouth and this is the origin of all those traditions which are at once interesting and instructive. It is but natural that legends, thus travelling from lip to lip, should be apt to grow inaccurate day by day and vanish altogether in course of time; and fearing that they might be totally lost, I have tried to collect such legends scattered through our literature and have worked the rude material thus gathered into, I hope, a readable form and presented it to the public in the shape of a handy manual called Kautukamālā and Bodhavacana. The sources of the maxims, forming the headings of the stories, have been carefully traced and hence it is hoped they will prove useful for practical purposes.

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