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A. K. Warder
Birds (Garuda); the Frog King destroyed by a deceitful external enemy through misguided policies; the failure of the Goblins to find a competent king among themselves. The more varied emboxed stories, with a mixture of animal and human characters, fall within the same field of policy in its broadest sense, the illustration of foolish or wise behaviour. Thus the Tantropākhyāna, like the Pancatantra, the Sukasaptati and Dānodaragupta's Kuttanimata (see Bhoja, Srngäraprakāša, Vol. II p. 469, Josyer's edition), belongs to the kavya genre of the illustrating novel' (nidaršanakathā). As befits Tantrā's situation, it has more the nature of an anthology of stories than the Pañcatantra and lacks the latter's purely theoretical discussions. It also brings in a large number of human characters, usually less intelligent than the non-human characters with whom they are generally mixed. Finally one may remark that the outlook is more ethical, as is to be expected of Tantrā holding a mirror to a tyrant, than the frequently unscrupulous but successful intrigues of the Pancatantra, this contrast appearing especially in the Nandakaprakarana which is a revision of the first Tantra.
Corrections
P. 113, line 2 from bottom, read : Nang Tantai (for Mül.a), P. 116, line 9 from bottom, read : (Nandaka) (for -na), P. 117, line 16, read : establishes ( for -d), P. 117, line 3 from bottom, read : Monopolises ( for -isises ) P. 120, line 3 from bottom, insertin': than in the frequently......
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