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Panchatantra

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Panchatantra

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Panchatantra

Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 2703/2703; HI 2703/2703; GU 2703/2703; chapters 6. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02645

Sanskrit · 5.p02645

ते प्रोचुः-

English · Meaning

They said:

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02646

Sanskrit · 5.p02646

कथा १२ चण्डकर्म-नाम-राक्षस-कथा

English · Meaning

Story 12: The story of the demon named Caṇḍakarma

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Sanskrit · 5.p02647

देव ! कस्मिंश्चिद् वनोद्देशे चण्डकर्मा नाम राक्षसः प्रतिवसति स्म । एकदा तेन भ्रमताटव्यां कश्चिद् ब्राह्मणः समासादितः । ततस् तस्य स्कन्धम् आरुह्य प्रोवाच-भो अग्रेसरो गम्यताम् ।

English · Meaning

“My lord, in a certain part of a forest there lived a demon named Caṇḍakarma. Once, while wandering through the forest, he came upon a certain Brahmin. Then, mounting the Brahmin’s shoulder, he said, ‘Ho! Go ahead.’”

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Sanskrit · 5.p02648

ब्राह्मणो ऽपि भय-त्रस्त-मनास् तम् आदाय प्रस्थितः । अथ तस्य कमलोदर-कोमलौ पादौ दृष्ट्वा ब्राह्मणो राक्षसम् अपृच्छत्-भोः ! किम् एवं-विधौ ते पादाव् अतिकोमलौ ?

English · Meaning

The Brahmin too, frightened and alarmed in mind, set out taking him. Then, seeing his feet, delicate like the inside of a lotus, the Brahmin asked the demon, “Ho! Why are your feet of this kind, so exceedingly delicate?”

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Sanskrit · 5.p02649

राक्षस आह-भोः ! व्रतम् अस्ति, नाहम् आर्द्र-पादो भूमिं स्पृशामि ।

English · Meaning

The demon said, “Ho! I have a vow: I do not touch the ground when wet-footed.”

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Contents

6 chapters
  1. Kathā-mukha
  2. Mitra-bheda
  3. Mitra-samprāpti
  4. Kākolūkīya
  5. Labdha-praṇāśa
  6. Aparīkṣita-kāraka

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Panchatantra

Panchatantra

Panchatantra · Digital Sanskrit transcription; Suno Katha free Library release

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Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 2703/2703; HI 2703/2703; GU 2703/2703; chapters 6. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.

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