Fables in the Indian Narrative Tradition Shree Lal Bahadur Shashtri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha As I give you over

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This is true of every kind of change in the universe

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This irreducible residuum is unavoidable so long as one cannot feel at home in that type of emotional thinking which culminates in a supersensnous object of aesthetic contemplation

Fables in the Indian Narrative Tradition Shree Lal Bahadur Shashtri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha As I give you overThe fable is the most metaphorical of all narrative genres. The Indian fable, being both realistic and other worldly, is recognised as a wonderful integration of the aesthetic and the discursive. Imitating the habits, chores, beliefs of the Indian culture, it is the dominant form in texts like the Pancatantra, the Jatakas, and the Hitopadea. It is included at different places in the long narratives of the Mahabharata and the Yogavasistha, and is