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| Bk. I | On causing dissension among allies | 57 |
| On causing dissension among allies | 57 | |
| The monkey that pulled the wedge | 66 | |
| The jackal that tried to eat a drum | 96 | |
| The adventures of an ascetic | 106 | |
| The ascetic and the rogue | 106 | |
| How the battling rams killed the greedy jackal | 108 | |
| A weaver cuts the nose of a bawd | 110 | |
| How the crows killed the snake | 122 | |
| The crab cuts off the heron's head | 124 | |
| The hare that outwitted the lion | 132 | |
| How the louse got killed trying to be nice to a bug | 152 | |
| How the lion's servants got the camel killed | 178 | |
| How the sandpiper defeated the ocean | 192 | |
| The turtle and the geese | 194 | |
| The fate of three fish : farsighted, quick-witted, and inevitable | 196 | |
| The bird that tried to advise a monkey | 218 | |
| Two friends and betrayed trust | 224 | |
| How the mongooses ate the heron's chicks | 230 | |
| The iron-eating mice | 236 | |
| Bk. II | On securing allies | 251 |
| The ascetic and the mouse | 282 | |
| The woman who traded sesame for sesame | 286 | |
| How the greedy jackal died eating a bowstring | 288 | |
| How Chitranga got caught in a trap | 334 | |
| Bk. III | On war and peace : the crows and the owls | 353 |
| The ass in a leopard's skin | 374 | |
| The owl is elected king of birds | 376 | |
| The hare bluffs the elephant | 378 | |
| Partridge and hare take their case to the cat | 392 | |
| How the rogues tricked the brahmin | 404 | |
| The old merchant and his young wife | 416 | |
| The thief, the ogre, and the brahmin | 418 | |
| How the unfaithful wife tricked her foolish husband | 424 | |
| The mouse that turned into a girl | 430 | |
| Frogs go for a ride on the back of a snake | 448 | |
| Bk. IV | On losing what you have gained | 473 |
| The ass without ears or a heart | 492 | |
| Bk. V | On hasty actions | 503 |
| Building castles in the air | 506 | |
| The barber who killed the monks | 514 |
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Nicole Mcgonigal
reviewed Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom on June 13, 2013
Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom
I found this very flat after enjoying Royall Tyler's No translations so much. Waley omits a lot of the text claiming it's of no interest or too arcane for a Western reader.
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Add Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom, 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 , Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom, 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 , Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom to your collection on WonderClub |
