Presents adaptations of tales and fables selected from Sanskrit and Pali sources that comprise the ancient literature and folklore of India. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Indian Tales and Legends is a book of contrasts: there are simple folk tales about cats, mice and tortoises, about a tiger of very great cunning, and a jackal who dyed himself blue. There are strange legends of ten-headed demons, of rogues and villains, of splendid kings ruling from jewelled thrones, the air around them heavy with the scent of flowers...read more