KALILA WA DIMNA, Vol. 2: - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue

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KALILA WA DIMNA, Vol. 2: - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue from the Panchatantra, Jatakas, Bidpai, Kalilah wa Dimnah and Lights of Canopus (KALILA AND DIMNA)

â€¢Kalila and Dimnaâ€¢ or â€¢The Panchatantraâ€¢ (also known in Europe since 1483 as â€¢The Fables of Bidpaiâ€¢) is a multi-layered, inter-connected and variable arrangement of animal stories, with one story leading into another, sometimes three or four deep. These arrangements have contributed to world literature for over 2000 years, migrating across ancient cultures in a multitude of written and oral formats. All our beast fables from Aesop and the Buddhist â€¢Jataka Talesâ€¢ through La Fontaine to Uncle Remus owe this strange, shape-shifting 'book' a huge debt.

In its original Arabic format, â€¢Kalila and Dimnaâ€¢ (â€¢The Panchatantraâ€¢ being its Sanskrit precursor), ostensibly constitutes a handbook for rulers, a so-called 'Mirror for Princes' illustrating indirectly, through a cascade of teaching stories and verse, how to (and how not to!) run the kingdom of your life. In their slyly profound grasp of human nature at its best (and worst!) these animal fables, usually avoiding any moralistic human criticism, serve up digestible sage counsel for us all.

Based on his collation of scholarly translations from key Sanskrit, Syriac, Arabic and Persian texts, as well as the 1570 English rendition by Sir Thomas North, this is the first uncompromisingly modern re-telling in either the East or West for over 400 years. In Ramsay Wood's version the profound meanings behind these ancient fables shine forth as he captures a great world classic, making it fresh, relevant, fascinating and hugely readable.

His second volume of fables from â€¢Kalila and Dimnaâ€¢, picks up where the first, Fables of Friendship and Betrayal, left off - covering deceit, political skullduggery, murder, enemies, deadly monsters, kings, bees, princesses, monkeys, lions, crocodiles and how we all live and die together in peace or conflict. This is a book full of outrageously behaved animals and humans doing the most delightfully awful (yet sometimes gentle) things to each other. These are joyous, sad, amusing and sometimes brutal stories; their function being to educate both king and commoner alike in the ways of the world, the harsh realities that can often lurk beneath the surface of our cozy, everyday subjectivity.

Country	USA
Author	Ramsay Wood
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2
EISBN	9780982687994
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Zirac Press
Manufacturer	Zirac Press
NumberOfPages	245
PublicationDate	2012-03-10
Publisher	Zirac Press
ReleaseDate	2012-03-10
Studio	Zirac Press

KALILA WA DIMNA, Vol. 2: - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue from the Panchatantra, Jatakas, Bidpai, Kalilah wa Dimnah and Lights of Canopus (KALILA AND DIMNA)

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