Author: Vishnu Sharma
Narrator: Kunwar Anil Kumar
Publisher: Manoj Publications
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 40
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788181334114
Description
This book is a collection of selected classical animal tales that teach the ways to succeed and the art of making right decisions. These are didactic and interesting stories which transformed the foolish princes into capable administrators.
Contents
STORY BEHIND HITOPADESH
THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING A FRIEND
Greed makes one blind
Think before you act
With whom to make friends
The cunning cat
Who was wiser
Who Knows the future
True friend
Consequence of greed
The elephant and the jackal
SUHRIDBHED
The cunning Jackals
Naughty monkey
Unnecessary concern
A cat's fallacy
The mystery of the bell
As you sow, so you will reap
Crookedness
Solution to a problem
Using one's wits
When the sea was vanquished
VIGRAHA
Once there was a heron
Foolish monkeys
The donkey in the guise of a lion
A ruse
Avoid the company of the wicked ones
Bad company yields bad results
False praise
Greedy barber
SANDHI
Compromise
Foolish Turtle
Right decision at the right moment
Craftiness of a woman
Fault of a heron
Bad end
The sanctimonious heron
A poor Brahmin's dream
Two demons
An innocent Brahmin
End of a poor camel
A cunning serpent