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FreeFreeTranslated from Sanskrit

By

Arthur W R H H RHR H

Fable is a traditional short story

It’s teaches us a moral lesson

Usually with animals or birds as character

The mice community lived in a ruined village

The elephant king and retinue marched through the mice community

The elephants crushed the faces, eyes, heads and necks, of many mice

The mice held a meeting to solve the issue

Essential Essential Question:Question:

How are some of How are some of the spiritual the spiritual

values of India values of India presented in presented in literature?literature?

The elephant king and retinue were caught in a trap

The elephants are saved by the mice

Fable Brief story that teaches a moral lesson or gives practical instruction for living

Characters are usually animals

AnthropomorphismGiving of human qualities to animals

EpigramShort verses that contain a moral

The Elephants are set The Elephants are set freefree

The “Outer” story – writer begins the story

There is a return to the original narration and the writer’s story concludes

The “Inner” story - One of the characters begins to narrate a story to some of the other characters in the original story

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