HITOPADESHA BY NARAYANA (A New English Translation)

The Hitopadesha—which literally 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 Losing 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 like 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.

This book title, HITOPADESHA BY NARAYANA (A New English Translation), ISBN: 9789391047948, by Shonaleeka Kaul, published by Rupa Publications (June 5, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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