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Publisher: Jaico Publishing House |
| Author Arthur W. Ryder | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 378 | |
| Cover: Paperback | |
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8.5 inch X 5.5 inch |
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Weight 440 gm |
| Edition: 2025 | |
| ISBN: 8172240805 | |
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NAD350 |
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The Panehatantra contains the mast widely known stones in the world In fact, it is urnversally acknowledged as the best collections of stories known to civilize man.
The central theme of the Panchatantra is the harmonious development of the powers of a man, a life in which security, prosperity, resolute action, friendship and good learning are so combined as to produce lasting joy And this noble theme is presented in an artistic form of perfect fitness, in five books of wise and witty stones, in most of which the actors are animals.
This immortal work on the Art of intelligent Living has traveled all ever the world in translation, and in translations of translations And through more than 20 centuries, this masterpiece of Indian Literature has never failed to bring delight to hundreds of millions, and to awaken intelligence in the young, through its wise and witty hints on a diversity Of themes, such as:
• Winning of Friends
• Love and Marriage
• Making Money
• Diplomacy, Happiness etc.
One Vishnu Sharman, shrewdly gleaning
All worldly wisdom’s inner meaning,
in these five books the charm compresses
of all such books the world possesses
And this is how it happened.
In the southern country is a city called Maidens’ Delight. There lived a king named Immortal-Power. He was familiar with all the works treating of the wise conduct of life. His feet were made dazzling by the tangle of rays of light from jewels in the diadems of mighty kings who knelt before him. He had reached the far shore of all the arts that embellish life. This King had three sons. Their names were Rich-Power, Fierce-Power, Endless-Power, and they were supreme blockheads.
Now when the king perceived that they were hostile education, he summoned his counselors and said: “Gentlemen, is known to you that these sons of mine, being hostile to education, are lacking in discernment. So when I behold them, my kingdom brings me no happiness, though all external thorns are drawn. For there is wisdom in the proverb:
Of sons unborn, or dead, or fools,
Unborn or dead will do:
they cause a little grief, no doubt;
But fools, a long life through.
And again:
to what good purpose can a cow
that brings no calf nor milk, be bent?
or why beget a son who proves
A dunce and disobedient?
Some means must therefore be devised to awaken their intelligence.”
And they, one after another, replied: “0 King, first one learns grammar, in twelve years. If this subject has somehow been mastered, then one masters the books on religion and practical life. Then the intelligence awakens.” But one of their numbers, a counselor named Keen, said:” O King, the duration of life is limited, and the verbal sciences require much time for mastery. Therefore let some kind of epitome be devised to wake their intelligence. There is a proverb that says:
Since verbal science has no final end,
Since life is short and obstacles impend.
Let central facts be picked and firmly fixed,
As swans extract the milk with water mixed.
“Now there is a Brahman here named Vishnu Sharman, with a reputation for competence in numerous sciences. In trust the princes to him. He will certainly make them intelligent in a twinkling.”
When the king had listened to this, he summoned Vishnu Sharman and said: “Holy sir, as a favor to me you must make these princes incomparable masters of the art of practical life. In return, I will bestow upon you a hundred land-grants.”
And Vishnu Sharman made answer to the king: “0 King, listen. Here is the plain truth. I am not the man to sell good learning, for a hundred land-grants. But if I do not, in six months’ time, make the boys acquainted with the art of intelligent living, I will give up my own name. Let us cut the matter short. Listen to my lion- roar. My boasting arises from no greed for cash. Besides, I have no use for money; I am eighty years old, and all the objects of sensual desire have lost their charm. But in order that your request may be granted, I will show a sporting spirit in reference to artistic matters. Make a note of the date. If I fail to render your sons, in six months’ time, incomparable masters of the art of intelligent living, then His Majesty is at liberty to show me His Majestic bare bottom.”
When the king, surrounded by his counselors, had listened to the Brahman’s highly unconventional promise, he was penetrated with wonder, entrusted the princes to him, and experienced supreme content.
Meanwhile, Vishnu Sharman took the boys, went home, and made them learn by heart five books which he composed and called:
(I) “The Loss of friends,” (II) “The Winning of Friends,” (Ill) “Crows and Owls,” (IV) “Loss of Gains,” (V) “Ill-considered Action.”
These the princes learned, and in six months’ time they answered the prescription. Since that day this work on the art of intelligent living, called Panchatantra, or the “Five Books,” has traveled the world, aiming at the awakening of intelligence in the young. To sum the matter up:
whoever learns the work by heart,
or through the story-teller’s art
Becomes acquainted,
His life by sad defeat -- although
the king of heaven be his foe-
is never tainted.
| Translator’s Introduction | 3 |
| Introduction | 11 |
| Book I -- The Loss Of Friends | |
| The Loss OF Friends | 17 |
| The Wedge-Pulling Monkey | 21 |
| The JACKAL And THE WAR-Drum | 35 |
| Merchant Strong-Tooth | 41 |
| Godly And June | 48 |
| The ,Jackal At The Ram-Fight | 51 |
| Tile Weaver’s Wife | 51 |
| How The Crow-Hen Killed Tile Black Snake | 61 |
| The Heron That Liked Crab--Meat | 63 |
| Numskull And The Rabbit | 66 |
| The Weaver Who Loved A Princess | 73 |
| The Ungrateful Man | 90 |
| Leap And Creep | 96 |
| The Blue Jackal | 98 |
| Passion And The Owl | 103 |
| Ugly’s Trust Abused | 108 |
| The Lion And The Carpenter | 113 |
| The Plover Who Fought The Ocean | 116 |
| Shell-Neck, Slim, And Grim | 118 |
| Forethought, Ready wit, And Fatalist | 119 |
| The Duel Between Elephant And Sparrow | 122 |
| The Shrewd Old Gander | 125 |
| The Lion And The Ram | 126 |
| Smart, The Jackal | 130 |
| The Monk Who Left His Body Behind | 138 |
| The Girl Who Married A Snake | 140 |
| Poor Blossom | 142 |
| The Unteachable Monkey | 145 |
| Right-Mind And Wrong-Mind | 146 |
| A Remedy Worse Than The Disease.. | 148 |
| The mice That ate Iron | 152 |
| The Results Of Education | 155 |
| The Sensible Enemy.. | 156 |
| The Foolish Friend | 160 |
| Book II- The Winning Of Friends | |
| The Winning Of Friends | 169 |
| The Baroda birds | 171 |
| Gold’s Gloom | 183 |
| Mother’s Chandelle’s Bargain | 185 |
| Self-Defeating Forethought | 187 |
| Mister Duly | 196 |
| Soft, The Weaver | 207 |
| Hang-Ball And Greedy | 210 |
| The Mice That Set Elephant. S free | 218 |
| Spot’s Captivity | 222 |
| Book III - Crows And Owls | |
| Crows And Owls | 233 |
| How The Birds Picked A King | 244 |
| How The Rabbit Fooled The Elephant | 247 |
| The Cat’s Judgment | 252 |
| The Brahman’ S Goat | 259 |
| The Snake And The Ants | 261 |
| The Snake Who Paid Cash | 265 |
| The Unsocial Swans | 266 |
| The Self-Sacrificing Dove. | 267 |
| The Old Man With The Young Wife | 273 |
| The Brahman, The Thief, And The Ghost | 275 |
| The Snake In The Prince’s Belly | 277 |
| The Gullible Carpenter | 279 |
| Mouse-Maid Made House | 282 |
| The Bird With golden Dung | 286 |
| The Cave that talked | 288 |
| Thefrogsthatr0de Snakeback | 293 |
| The Butter blinked Brahman | 295 |
| Book IV - Loss Of Gains | |
| Loss Of Gains | 305 |
| The Monkey And The Crocodile | 305 |
| Handsome And Theodore | 310 |
| Flop-Ear And Dusty | 315 |
| The Plotter Militant | 318 |
| The Jackal Who Killed No Elephants | 320 |
| The Ungrateful Wife | 322 |
| King Joy And Secretary Splendor | 324 |
| The Ass In The Tiger-Skin | 326 |
| The Farmer’s Wife | 328 |
| The Pert Hen sparrow | 330 |
| How Super smart Am The Elephant | 332 |
| The Dog Who Went Abroad | 335 |
| Book V – Ill consider Action | |
| Ill-Consider Action | 339 |
| The Loyal Mungse | 343 |
| The Four Treasure-Seekers | 344 |
| The Lion Makers | 350 |
| Hundred-Wit, Thousand-Wit’ And Single-Wit | 352 |
| The Musical Donkey | 354 |
| Slow, The Weaver | 356 |
| The Brahman’s Dream | 359 |
| The Uniform Wing Monkey | 360 |
| The Credulous Fiend | 365 |
| The Three breasted Princess | 367 |
| The Fiend Who Washed His Feet | 368 |
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