More Jataka Tales-Ellen C. Babbitt
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What is the purpose of the introductory foreword in this Jataka Tales collection?
Ford of Moor Jacket Tales This is a Libervox recording. All Libervox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libervox dot org More Jacada Tales by Ellen C Babbitt The continued success of the Jacata Tales, as retold and published ten years ago, is has led to the second in companion volume. Who that has read or told stories to children has not been lured on by the subtle flattery of their cry for more? doctor Felix Adler, in his forward to Jacata Tales, says that long ago he was captivated by the charm of the Jacata Tales. Little children have not only felt this charm, but they have discovered that they can read the stories to themselves, and so more Jacata tales were found in the volume translated from the Sanskrit into English by a group of Cambridge scholars and published by the University Press.
The Jacata tales, regarded as historic in the third century BC, are the oldest collection of folklore extant. They come down to us from that dim far off time when our forebears told tales around the same hearth fire on the roof of the world. Professor Reese Daves speaks of them as a priceless record of the childhood of our race and The same stories are found in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, and in most European languages. The Greek versions of the Jacata Tales were adapted and ascribed to the famous storyteller ASAP. and under his name handed down as a continual feast for the children in the west. Tales first invented to please and instruct our far off cousins in the East. Here east through east meets west
A guide of Jacketed Translators Under Professor E B Cowell Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge brought out the complete edition of the Jacata between eighteen ninety five and nineteen oh seven. It is from this source that Jacata Tales and more Jacata tales have been retold. Of these stories spread over Europe through literary channels, Professor Cowell says they are the stray wafes of literature in the course of their long wanderings coming to be recognized under widely different aspects as when they are used by Boccaccio or Chaucer or La Fontine. End of forward
Chapter 1 of More Jatica Tales. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Kathleen Larberg. More Jatica Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Chapter 1: The Girl Monkey and the String of Pearls. One day the king went for a long walk in the woods. When he came back to his own garden he sent for his family to come down to the lake for a swim. When they were all ready to go into the water, the queen and her ladies left their jewels in charge of the servants, and then went down into the lake. As the queen put her string of pearls away in a box, she was watched by a girl monkey who sat in the branches of a tree nearby.
This girl monkey wanted to get the queen's string of pearls, so she sat still and watched, hoping that the servant in charge of the pearls would go to sleep. At first, the servant kept her eyes on the jewel box, but by and by she began to nod, and then she fell fast asleep. As soon as the monkey saw this, quick as the wind she jumped down, opened the box, picked up the string of pearls, and quick as the wind she was up in the tree again, holding the pearls very carefully. She put the string of pearls on, and then, for fear the guards in the garden would see the pearls, the monkey hid them in a hole in the tree. Then she sat nearby looking as if nothing had happened. By and by the servant awoke. She looked in the box, and finding that the string of pearls was not there, she cried, A man has run off with the queen's string of pearls.
Up ran the guards from every side. The servant said, I sat right here beside the box where the queen put her string of pearls. I did not move from the place. But the day is hot and I was tired. I must have fallen asleep. The pearls were gone. Well, I think that's a good thing. The guards told the king that the pearls were gone.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the introductory foreword in this Jataka Tales collection?
0:00–13:57
2
What lesson does the story of the girl monkey and the stolen pearls teach?
13:57–32:47
3
How does the tale of the three fishes illustrate the value of caution and teamwork?
32:47–47:37
4
What moral is conveyed by the cunning wolf’s trick on the lion in the “Tricky Wolf” story?
47:37–1:04:25
5
Why does the woodpecker help the lion with the stuck bone, and what does this reveal about gratitude?
1:04:25–1:18:28
6
What does the “Golden Goose” fable warn about greed and generosity?
1:18:28–1:27:20
7
How do the “Stupid Monkeys” demonstrate the consequences of misguided actions?
1:27:20–1:27:53
8
What overarching moral can listeners draw from the collection of Jataka tales presented?
1:27:53–1:27:58