Cradle Tales of Hinduism (Classic Reprint)

Indian nursery-tales. The only discretion which I have permitted to myself has been that sometimes, in choosing between two versions, I have preferred the story received by word of mouth to that found in the books. Each one, and every incident of each, as here told, has one or other of these forms of authenticity. To take them one by one, the Cycle of Snake Tales is found in the first volume of theM ahabharata. The story of Siva is inserted as a necessary foreword to those of Sati and Uma. The tale of Sati is gathered from theB hagavat Purana, and that of the Princess Uma from the Ramayana, and from Kalidas poem of Kumar Sambhaba, The Birth of theW ar-L ord. Savitri, the Indian A lcestis, comes from that mine of jewels, theM ahabharata, as does also the incomparable story of Nala and Damayanti.
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