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Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit, Being the Hitopadesa
Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit Being the Hitopadesa Author:Henry Morley 1886. The following translation is a faithful portrait of the Sanskrit original of those celebrated fables, which after passing through most of the Oriental languages, ancient and modern, with various alterations to accommodate them to the taste and the genius of those for whose benefit or amusement they were designed. Granting the Hitopadesa be... more » the work it is supposed to be, the translator has brought all he collected upon this subject under one view, found in his preface.« less