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    ye oP = Cc H I Ty se A PIAPA ‘The original Sanskrit text of the Panchatentra was probably written about 200 B.C. by the great scholer, Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales must have been in circulation much earlier. In course of time, travellers took these tales with them to Persia and Arabia and finally, through Greece, they reached Europe. So far the Pancha- tantra has been translated into 50 or more languages of the world, How the tales of the Panchatantra came to be told is itself an interesting story. A king in ancient India could ot find teacher who could make his three sons interested in the pursuit of knowledge. At last he found in Vishnu Sharma the teacher he was looking for — the teacher who could make the pursuit of knowledge palatable to his sons. The study of the theories of philosophy, psychology and statecraft became engrossing when Vishou Sharma drove the moral home through the mouths of talking animals and their escapades. One unique feature of the tales is that most of the characters ate animals; another, the tales form a chain of stories; a third, each of the tales has a distinct moral; and yet another, the tales have different levels of appeal. The morals which the Panchatantra seeks to teach continue to be relevant to this day and the stories then- selves haven't lost their novelty even two thousand years after they were first told, OUR NEXT TITLE: TALES OF SHIVA © Indie Book House Education Trust, Bombay-400 039 All rights reserved First Printing: oy 1978 Published by H.G. Mirchandani, for India Book House Education Trust, Rust Mansion, 29, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Bombay-400 039 and printed by H.K, Nasta at IBH Printers, Maro! Naka, Mathuradas. Vissanji Road, Andheri (East), Bombay-400 059 Editor: Anant Pai Associate Editor: Kamala Chandrakant Script : Kamala Chandrakant Illustrations : Ram Waeerkar BEEN GUARDING THIS, DEAD ELEPHANT FOR yOu. AS HE WONDERED WHAT TO DO,A TIGER CAME BY. E WW OH!OH!ISENT OFF WS ‘ONE FELLOW BY PRE- CUNNING! ie Ww Biiy He's Not one saad OYNY TO BE FLATTERED. Py ee : _ S a Se G, ae a : : a = Ke ‘LE! IT'S DANGEROUS FOR YOU TO P54 BE HERE.THE LION WHO KILLED THIS 1 Ag) A) ELEPHANT HAS GONE TO BATHE LEAVING ME HERE TO GUARD IT. if g KK a 4 Wye | ; ra: — - ES EHS HE HAS SWORN To KILL EVERY TIGER HE MEETS IN THIS FOREST. BUT | STILL HAVEN'T GOT TO THE FLESH OF THIS ELEPHANT! Jang USE ! HE HAS STRONG TEETH AND WILL CUT THROUGH THE HIDE IN NO "TME. THEN PLL SEND HIM PACKING. ISN'T IT? IT WAS KILLED BY A LION WHO LEFT ME HERE TO GUARD IT. BUT. YOU MAY EAT SOME OF IT BEFORE HE.GETS BACK , IF YOU'RE MY NEPHEW | YOU SEEM HUNGRY. A LION, DID YOu SAY 2 NO! NOL THIS MEAT WOULD BE THE DEATH OF ME, IF | DON'T ESCAPE IM TIME | k COME ON. BE THE LEOPARD NEEDED KOENES/ OLD AND EAT. | Vf PLL KEEP WATCH a y [AND WARN YOU, IF J 1 SEE HIM COMING. 5 par Be sl ) Beef) qs eS v7 ie THE LEOPARD DID NOT EVEN sToP TO |f LOOK UP. TURNING ON HIG HEELS , HE RAN FOR HIS LIFE. PLL FIGHT HIM OFF. ALL THIS MEAT! ALL FOR MYSELF! | NEED NOT LOOK =| NOT GET ALONG WITH SOME OF HI6 RELATIVES BECAUSE THEY OFTEN TREATED HIM BADLY. TAKE CARE, DEAR HUSBAND, THAT IN TRYING TO HARM THEM YOU DON’T GET US INTO TROUBLE. HOW DARE THEY ‘TREAT ME, THEIR KING, IN THIS WAY! | MUST TEACH ‘THEM A LESSON. +O PAIL, UP THE WATER — WHEEL ..- ss AND CAME QUT OF THE WELL . JUST THEN HE SAW PRIYADARSHANA ; THE SNAKE , SLIDE INTO HIS HOL AHI I'LL ASK HIM TO BE MY GUEST AND EAT MY WICKED RELATIVES, P [ HEY, PRIYA- DARSHANA ! COME OUT. ‘COME OUT, PRIYADARSHANA. 1AM GANGADATTA, THE FROG-KING «| WANT TO MAKE FRIEND6 WITH THAT'S NO SNAKE CALLING ME. AND | DON’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS APART FROM GNAKES. PERHAPS IT'S A SNAKE CHARMER! AJ IMPOSSIBLE ! CAN HAY EVER MAKE FRIENDS WITH FIRE 2 WHAT YOu SAY MAKES NO LESS ,| NEED YOUR HELP. 1 WANT YOU TO EAT MY ENEMIES. WHO ARE. THESE THEY LIVE IN THE ENEMIES? SAME WELL AS OW! YOU LIVE IN A WELL! HOW AM 1 TO GET IN. AND EVEN IF | DID, WHERE WOULD | PERCH WHILE KILLING YOUR ENEMIES? GET AWAY WITH YL | USED TO BE. ONCE IN A WHILE 1 CATCH A MOUSE AND THAT TOO WITH DIFFICULTY. HIS OFFER IS TEMPTING. WAIT, MY FRIEND, I'LL SHOW YOU HOW TO GET INTO THE WELL. AND LL ALSO SHOW YOU A COMFORT- ABLE HOLE, ALITTLE ABOVE THE WATER, WHERESYOU CAN REST. PLEASE COME WELL ,GANGADATTA, | HAVE DECIDED To COME WITH You! LEAD AND /LL FOLLOW. THANK YOU, MY FRIEND. BUT “THERE'S ONE “THING. YOU MUST SPARE My OWN FAMILY AND BAT ONLY THOSE WHOM | TELL You TO EAT. yOu ARE MY ‘THE SNAKE THEN CAME OUT OF HIS HOLE. FRIEND NOW, GANGA =a DATTA.1 WOULDN'T ToucH YOUR FAMILY. FOLLOW ME. e ry THAT'S THE IT'S VERY > j[ HOLE. SETTLE YOURSELF THERE. spss i WHEN THE SNAKE WAS COMFORTABLY SETTLED — WHEN GANGADATTA 16 NOT AROUND, 1 SHALL HELP MYSELF TO A FRIENDLY FROG OR TWO. AS WELL - WHEN GANGADATTA CAME TO SEE Hit — SQ y GOOD ! Now YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR HOLE, THE WAY YOU CAME, MY FRIEND. ALL YOUR ENEMIES! RETURN TO MY HOLE 2 You CAN'T BE SERIOUS. SOME JOTHER SNAKE WOULD HAVE MOVED INTO IT THE VERY DAY | LEFT. NO, MY FRIEND, | WILL HAVE TO STAY HERE. AND SINCE YOU TOOK ME OUT OF MY HOLE, JTIS YOUR DUTY TO ‘YOU MUST GIVE ME ONE FROG AT A TIME,FROM YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR OWN FAMILY. IF YOU DON'T, PLL EAT YOU ALL UP. WHAT A FOOL | HAVE IKE HOWEVER NOT ONLY BEEN | WHY DID | EVER ATE THE PROG SENT TO HIM... BRING HIM HERE © NOW 5 HAVE NO CHOICE BUT FY TO GIVE Him A FROG O EVERY DAY. NOINO! NOT THAT ONE, MY FRIEND. IT’S MY SON! WHAT'S THE USE OF WAILING NOWP le/ WHO 1S THERE TO HELP YOU 2 YOU WANTED TO DESTROY YOUR OWN KIN {| YOU'D BETTER ESCAPE FROM HERE OR THINK OF A PLOT TO KILL HIM. ‘MY FRIEND ,AS LONG AS |’M ALIVE YOU WON’ GO HUNGRY. PERMIT ME JO LEAVE THIS WELL AND ILL BRING YOU ALL THE FROGS FROM OTHER WELLS. THE DAYS WENT 8Y, GANGADATTA HAD NO PLAN AND ALL THE FROGS IN THE WELL WERE EATEN. ALL BUT HIMSELF. DEAR GANGADATTA, nd YM HUNGRY. PLEASE YEE FIND ME SOMETHING [> TO EAT. IT'S YOUR, YOU, WHO HAVE BEEN LIKE A BROTHER TO ME, /LL NEVER EAT NOW. IF YOU DO AS YOU PROMISE, YOU WILL BE LIKE A FATHER TO ME. NOT WASTING ANOTHER MOMENT, THE FROG ESCAPED FROM THE WELL~ MEANWHILE , THE SNAKE WAITED IN VAIN FOR HIS RETURN. V'D BETTER FIND MYSELF ANOTHER WELL TO LIVE IN. 1 SHOULD NOT HAVE LET HIM Go. MANY DAYS LATER, THE OLD SNAKE TURNED TO A LIZARD WHO LIVED IN THE SAME WELL. 57 mapam, ¥Ou AND GANGADATTA ARE OLD FRIENDS. PLEASE FIND HIM_ AND ASK HIM TO RETURN QUICKLY + NEVER MIND IF HE CAN'T GET OTHER FROGS TO COME, ( TELL HIM THAT 1 WILL NOT HURT HIM; THAT | CAN'T LIVE. WITHOUT HIM: y DEAR GANGADATTA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE © YOUR FRIEND, PRIVADARSHANA |S ANXIOUSLY AWAITING YOUR. RETURN. HE A STARVING MAN |S NOT TO BE TRUSTED. PVE LEARNT MY LESSON. HE WILL NEVER SEE ME IN AUUNGLE THERE ONCE LIVED A LION WHO HAD A JACKAL FOR A, SERVANT. WHENEVER THE LION KILLED AN ANIMAL , HE WOULD FIRST HAVE HIS FILL ++. ONE DAY, THE LION MADE THE MISTAKE OF ATTACKING A FIERCE KING~ ELEPHANT. THE ELEPHANT WOUNDED HIM SO BADLY THAT He COULD BARELY WALK. [——4 FOR A WEEK, MASTER AND SERVANT STARVED . AT LAST, THE LION HAD AN IDEA. IF YOU CAN BRING SOME ANIMAL TO ME WHICH | CAN KILL WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT, WE WON'T HAVE TO STARVE. THAT’S A FINE DEER BUT TOO FAST FOR MY WOUNDED MASTER THE JACKAL SLOWLY ROSE 70 HIS FEET AND SET QUT. ‘AH! A DONKEY } JUST THE ANIMAL, 1AM LOOKING FOR! |/Goop pay \ /How ELSE wouLD 1 LOOK, | [ NOT A HANDFUL UNCLE | WHY DEAR NEPHEW ©! HAVE A OF RICH FODDER DO YOU LOOK | CRUEL, MISERLY DHOB) FOR HAVE | EATEN SO FEEBLE® A MASTER. | AM OVERWORKED| IN AGES! ALL AND UNDERFED. THAT | LIVE ON 15 THIS DRy IF THAT 1S SO, WHY DON'T YOU COME AND LIVE WITH ME IN THE FOREST P YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, UNCLE . NO ONE DARES TO COME NEAR MY CAVE. THEY FEAR ‘MY POWERFUL PAWS AND IT 18 VERY KIND OF YOU TO INVITE ME. BUT 1 AM A VILLAGE DWELLER « THE WILD ANIMALS OF THE JUNGLE WOULD SOON KILL ME- DO YOU KNOW, THREE SHE -DONKEYS WHO WERE TORTURED LIKE YOU BY THEIR MASTERS ARE NOW LIVING UNDER MY PROTECTION. YES. THREE OF THEM! THEY HAVE GROWN PLUMP ON THE RICH, GREEN GRASS AND NOW WANT TO GET MARRIED. IN FACT, | HAVE COME IN SEARCH OF A HUSBAND FOR THEM. “THAT'S WHY | WANT TO TAKE YOU BACK WITH ME. aa YOU COULDN'T KILL HIM | O MASTER, HOW DID YOU DARE ATTACK AN ELEPHANT © IMPOSSIBLE | HE SAW ME AND RAN AWAY. 4OU'LL HAVE TO BRING SOME OTHER LOVESICK SHE -DONKEY, ‘SPOT YOU TOOK ME TO! WHEN SHE SAW YOU, SHE 1's MY LUCK THAT ‘SPRANG FORWARD TO 1 ESCAPED FROM THAT HORRIBLE CREATURE | WERE SHY AND f RAN AWAY. Y YOU MUST COME BACK SHE CAN'T BEAR AND MARRY HER. IF YOU ¢ ‘TO BE SEPARATED DON'T, SHE SAYS SHE'LL “ FROM YOU. 50 HAVE STARVE HERSELF TO MERCY ON HER AND DEATH. Z| RETURN. IF YOU DON'T, YOU WILL BE GUILTY OF KILLING A LADY AND KAMADEVA* WiLL BE| ANGRY WITH YOU.| BELIEVING ALL THAT THE JACKAL SAID, THE FOOLISH DONKEY WENT BACK WITH HIM TO THE JUNGLE. DIDN'T | TELL YOU | WOULD SUCCEED IF|WERE READY © NOW QUARD THIS DONKEY WHILE 1 GO TO BATHE - 0 CANNOT WAIT TLL HE RETURNS. WHILE HE 18 AWAY, I’LL EAT. WHEN THE LION RETURNED, HE BEGAN [SNIFFING AT THE DONKEY. SUDDENLY, HE BEGAN TO ROAR. - , Ke NY you HAVE EATEN THE EARS AND HEART! AM | TO EAT YOUR [SUT THE JACKAL WAS NOT FRIGHTENED. CALMLY HE FACED THE LION. -—————~ ‘© KING, THIS CREATURE WAS BORN WITHOUT EARS OR HEART. IF NOT, WOULD HE HAVE COME HERE, HEARD YOUR ROAR, RUN AWAY IN TERROR... SHOULD THE DONKEY HAVE COME BACK 2 ALL RIGHT. 1 SHALL FIRST HAVE Y my FILL OF THIS DONKEY. YOU MAY THEN EAT THE REST. a FEARFUL TIGER, MY GENTLE DONKEY, AND EAT PSE INE, MILLET YOU WANT. TBAT OSs ELL PLAY THIS FELLOW AND TAKE THE SKIN HOME. Rs (KEY WILL Ne dene TACK FOOD. THERE | NOW, IN THIS GARB; G0 INTO THE MILLET FIELDS AT GO,MY PET, AND EAT TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT. PLL COME BACK FOR (IN THE MORNING , THE DOB! LED Hin HOME. THIS WENT ON FOR MANY DAYS. WHAT SHALL ee WE DO PWE?RE eon HELPLESS. UUST THEN, THE DONKEY HEARD | THE BRAY OF A SHE: a — JARGED | |IN THE MORNING, THE DHOB! WAS . SHOCKED TO SEE HIS DONKEY DEAD. my | FRIEND | HOW = 1D IT HAPPEN? soe eee cop ONE DAY, HE COULD NOT FIND AN HE RAISED HIS PAW TO STRIKE IT ANIMAL TO KILL. AS HE WAS WHEN PITY FOR THE TINY CREATURE RETURNING HOME — Se OVERCAME HIM. = PICKING THE CUB UP GENTLY WITH HIS BUT YOU MAY KILL AND EAT : HIM IF YOU LIKE. 7 | COULDN'T FINDA ‘N A SINGLE ANIMAL. THEN WHEN YOU DIDN'T (SAW THIS cuB. p HAVE THE HEART TO I DIDN'T HAVE THE be KILL HIM,HOW CAN 12 UP AS MY THIRD Bx ‘SON. HE SHALL GROW i SS

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