Identifier: libraryofworldsbv18warn (find matches)
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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; i. £\, Salutary Advice. Both thesebooks have been published in England and Germany, and thereare translations of them in English, German, French, and otherlanguages.
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FREDERICK MAX MULLER 10431 The first question which we have to answer refers to thedate of these collections; and dates in the history of Sanskritliterature are always difficult points. Fortunately, as we shallsee, we can in this case fix the date of the (Pan^atantra > atleast, by means of a translation into ancient Persian, which wasmade about five hundred and fifty years after Christ, thougheven then we can only prove that a collection somewhat like the(Pan^atantra> must have existed at that time; but we cannotrefer the book, in exactly that form in which we now possess it,to that distant period. If we look for La Fontaines fable in the Sanskrit stories of( Pan^atantra,> we do not find, indeed, the milkmaid counting herchickens before they are hatched, but we meet with the follow-ing story: — (< There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name wasSvabhavakr/pa/?a, which means (a born miser.) He had collected aquantity of rice by begging (this reminds us somewhat of

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