Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

Translated by

S. M. Mitra

Adapted by

Mrs. Arthur Bell

1919

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

Thanks to Mr. S. M. Mitra, the well-known Hindu psychologist and

politician, who has done so much to draw more closely together

the land of his birth and that of his adoption, I am able to bring

within reach of English children a number of typical Hindu Tales,

translated by him from the Sanskrit, some of them culled from the

ancient classics of India, others from widely separated sources. The

latter have hitherto been quite inaccessible to western students,

as they are not yet embodied in literature, but have been transmitted

orally from generation to generation for many centuries.

These tales are not only of a kind to enchain the attention of