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Hitopadesha
- A New English Translation
Engelsk Hardback
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Hitopadesha
- A New English Translation
Engelsk Hardback

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The Hitopadesha”whichiterally means good advice”was composed in Sanskrit sometime between the ninth and tenth centuries CE by Pandit Narayana. Arranged in four fascinating sections”Winning Friends,osing Friends, Waging War, and Making Peace”the vignettes that comprise the text include tales of anthropomorphized birds and animals who are imbued with all too human qualities and frailties. Using humour, satire, and unconventional methods of narration, the stories in the collection prescribe canny and pragmatic responses to a range of very human situations, ambitions, problems, and dilemmas. Not only does the book have advice for the ruler who is too timid or too haughty, but also for the minister who must serve him, as for the innocent husband with the conniving wife, the beautiful wife with the undeserving husband, friends turned enemies, enemies reconciled, clever people, foolish people, the greedy, the distraught, and so on. The Hitopadesha,ike the Panchatantra, is among the most widely translated classical texts of India. This new version by historian and Sanskritist Shonaleeka Kaul is an idiomatic translation in simple narrative prose and free verse that retains the freshness and wit of the original.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9789391047948
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9391047947
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2022
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
136mm
Højde:
206mm
Forlag:
Aleph Book Company
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2022
Forfatter(e):
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