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Indian Nights' Entertainment or Folktales from the Upper Indus (Paperback)
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Indian Nights' Entertainment or Folktales from the Upper Indus (Paperback)
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1892. These stories are translations from the Panjabi of the Upper
Indus, they are as literal as idiom and freedom of expression would
permit. As folktales, they claim the highest possible antiquity,
being older than the Jatakas, older than the Mahabharata, older
than history itself. From age to age and generation to generation,
they have been faithfully handed down by a people rude and
unlearned, who have preserved them through all the vicissitudes of
devastating wars, changes of rule and faith, and centuries of
oppression. They are essentially tales of the people. They are
truly representative of the quaint legends and stories which form
the delight of the village hujra or guesthouse on winter nights,
when icy winds are blowing over mountain and plain; when the young
men of the village community gather round the blazing logs to be
charmed by the voice of some wandering minstrel.
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