The Hitopadeśa

The Hitopadeśa

by Nārāyaṇa, (Client of Dhavalacandra)

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Didactic tales and fables in verse. Composed between 800 and 950 AD, the Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, Narayana weaves a framework for the classic tales, here narrated by animals …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The Hitopadeśa / Nārāyaṇa ; translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction by A.N.D. Haksar.

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Didactic tales and fables in verse. Composed between 800 and 950 AD, the Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, Narayana weaves a framework for the classic tales, here narrated by animals who quote from and reflect on stories from the Pancatantra and other traditional sources. At once an anthology of folk wisdom and an original and satirical work in its own right, the Hitopadesa has been deeply admired and widely read for more than a thousand years for its humorous and profound reflections on human lives, loves, follies and philosophies.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Penguin Books
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2006.

Notes

Originally published: New Delhi, India : Penguin Books India, 1998.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xx, 239 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780140455229, 0140455221
  • oclc:ocm65764205
  • LC Classification:PK3741.H6
  • Dewey Decimal:398.24520934

Subjects

Fables, Indic Fables, Indic -- Translations into Engl… Translations Translations into English

Writers

Nārāyaṇa, (Client of Dhavalacandra) Haksar, A. N. D.

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