Language: EnglishPages: 231About This BookThis book is a compilation of Stories from Sanskrit Classics representing the best that ancient India offered in the form of moral and spiritual education.They have been compiled from the Puranas which enshrine truths which have an abiding vitality. Puraapi navam, though old, the Puranas are ever new.Time cannot make them obsolete nor is their value confined to the land of their origin. They are eternal in their import and universal in their application. They represent some of the brilliant facets of the uncut diamond of our ageless Culture.In the words of Sister Nivedita, they have been the ‘Cradle Tales of Hinduism’ uttered in song and story providing lullabies with which the Indian mother steeped in tradition rocked her babies to sleep. They have also furnished a worthwhile pastime with which, in solitude or in society, the aged beguiled the creeping hours of their leisured evenings.Whether one believes in the factural content of these stories or not, their didactic purpose is unescapable. They will serve to inspire generations of mankind filling them with noble resolves and urging them to purposeful endeavour.Kulapati's PrefaceThe Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan——that institute of Indian Culture in Bombay needed a Book University, a Series of books which, if read, would serve the purpose of providing higher education. Particular emphasis, however, was to be put on such literature as revealed the deeper impulsions of India. As a first step, it was decided to bring out in English 100 books, so of which were to be taken in hand almost at once. Each book was to contain from 200 to 250 pages and was to be priced at Rs. 2-50.It is our int - from Amzon