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The Panćatantra (Winning of Friends) – Bharunda Birds – Vişņu Śarma – Translated from the Sanskrit by Chandra Rajan


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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), today I will share yet another tale from this monumental book The Panćatantra, tradition ascribes this fabulous work to Vişņu Śarma (“Preserver of Bliss”), faced with the challenge of educating three unlettered princes, to awaken their intelligence, Vişņu Śarma (“Preserver of Bliss”) evolved a unique pedagogy – for his aim was to teach the princes how to think, not what to think.



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Before we embark on this wonder filled, journey I want to draw your attention to these wise words of a Storyteller which I have extracted from yet another monumental work which has been inspired from “The Panćatantra”:



My stories require, at this stage, no extra commentary, imaginings, or guesswork by you, me, or anyone else. The very worst would be that of moralizing. To explain away is to forget. Thus, let the stories which you can remember do their own work by their very diversity. Familiarize yourself with them.



Excerpt from Doctor’s orders:



Kalila Wa Dimna; Vol.1 – Ramsay Wood



The tale of ‘Bharunda Birds’



‘Beside a certain lake, there lived a species of birds known as Bharunda. They each had two necks but only one stomach. Now, one day, one of these birds, was rambling around happily when one of his necks chanced upon some ambrosia spilt somewhere there; whereupon his other neck pleaded, ‘Give me half of that.’ When the first neck refused outright the second neck, mad with rage began searching for poison and finding some, ingested it. As the bird had only one stomach it dropped dead.





The Panćatantra (Winning of Friends) – Bharunda Birds – Vişņu ŚarmaTranslated from the Sanskrit by Chandra Rajan
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