The Panchatantra. Translated from the Sanskrit by RYDER, Arthur W Translator - 1926

University of Chicago Press, 1926. Hardcover, Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Mild Wear to book. Book pages clean. No markings in book. Binding is tight. Covers clean but faded around edges, Spine sunned. Black boards with gold gilt. 1926 University of Chicago Press. <P>From the introduction: Dr. Hertel, the learned and painstaking editor of the text used by the present translator, believes that the original work was composed in Kashmir, about 200 BC. At this date, however, many of the individual stories were already ancient. He then enumerates no less than twenty-five recensions of the work in India. The text here translated is late, dating from the year 1199 A.D. <P> The present version has not been made by a scholar, but by the opposite of a scholar, a lover of good books, eager, so far as his powers permit, to extend an accurate and joyful acquaintance with the world's masterpieces. He will therefore not endeavor to tell the history of the Panchatantra, but to tell what the Panchatantra is. The Panchatantra is a niti-shastra, or textbook of niti. The word niti means roughly ...the wise conduct of life.... Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.