Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom

Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 566
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ISBN-10 : 9781479872138
ISBN-13 : 147987213X
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Download or read book Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop’s fables. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org


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