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Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's 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... Read Full Overview

This work aims at teaching the principles of polity guided by morality, presenting them in the agreeable form of stories written mainly in prose interspersed with verse. It belongs to that class of compositions which imparts instructions through fables inspired by the wisdom... Read Full Overview

The Hitopades'a of Narayana is a book translated by M. R. Kale in 1896. It is a collection of fables and moral stories that originated from India. The book contains four sections, each with its own set of stories. The first section is called Mitralabha, which means ""gaining... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

The Hitopades'a of Narayana, published in 1896, is a book by M.R. Kale that presents a collection of ancient Indian fables and moral stories. The Hitopades'a is a work of Sanskrit literature that dates back to the 12th century and is attributed to the philosopher Narayana. The... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

Hitopadesa is a book written in Sanskrit, which is a classical language of India. This book, published in 1847, contains the original Sanskrit text along with a grammatical analysis and an alphabetical arrangement. The Hitopadesa is a collection of fables and moral stories that... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview