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Sanskrit (0499) Set Texts
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The Bhagavad Gita (prescribed selections)
The Song of the Lord: Krishna's teaching to Arjuna, from the Mahabharata
The Bhagavad Gita ('Song of the Lord') is a dialogue of about 700 verses set within the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. On the eve of the battle of Kurukshetra, the warrior-prince Arjuna, seeing his own kinsmen, teachers and friends arrayed against him in the enemy ranks, is overwhelmed by grief and refuses to...
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Six Stories adapted from the Mahabharata
Prescribed Sanskrit prose narratives: from Shantanu and Ganga to the saving of Parikshit
This set text consists of six short prose stories, adapted into simple Sanskrit from the great epic the Mahabharata, that together trace the origins of the royal house at the centre of the epic. They run from the marriage of King Shantanu to the river-goddess Ganga, through the great vow of their son Bhishma and the...
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The Pancatantra of Vishnusharman (prescribed selections)
The 'Five Treatises': beast-fables of niti (worldly wisdom) within a teaching frame
The Pancatantra ('Five Treatises' or 'Five Books') is the most famous collection of beast-fables in Sanskrit and one of the most widely translated books in the world. It is a niti-shastra - a treatise on niti, the practical wisdom of conduct, statecraft and worldly success - cast in the delightful form of animal...
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