kalila & dimna story @ institute for cultural research 28/3/09
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A storyteller's bird's-eye view of the fabulous travels of the 8th Century Arabic prose classic •KALILA WA DIMNA•, beginning from the Buddha's JATAKA TALES in India circa 450 BCE until its arrival 2000 years later in England, translated in 1570 CE from the Italian by Sir Thomas North as •THE MORAL PHILOSOPHIE OF DONI•TRANSCRIPT
ICR London Seminar on The Power of Stories March 2009
The Kalila & Dimna Story
by Ramsay Wood
How an ancient ‘book’ left home
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Circa 450 BCE
547 Jatakas Animal Story
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1- (Navajo) ‘At the time when men and animals were all the same and spoke the
same language...’
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Circa 450 BCE
547 Jatakas Animal Story
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Bull, King Lion & the Jackal Brothers
Four Key Characters
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Abassid Caliph al-Mansur
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Karataka ('Horribly Howling') and Damanaka (‘Victor) = Sanskrit (1st Tantra)
Karirak ud Damanak = Pahlavi title
Kalila wa Dimna = Arabic title
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Thomas North, 1570
Philosophie of the wise auncient Fathers:A work first compiled in the Indian tongue, and aftervvardes transferred into divers and sundrie other languages:
As the Persian, Arabian, Hebrue, Latine, Spanish, and Italian: and now reduced into our vulgar speeche.
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K & D Animal Stories (oral, manuscript & book)
• Jataka Tales — 450ish BCE, Buddha/Disciples• Panchatantra — 200ish BCE, Visnu Sarma• Karirak ud Damanak — 570ish CE, Burzouy/Bidpai• Kalila wa Dimna —750ish CE, Ibn al-Muqaffa/Bidpai
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• Moral Philosophy of Doni — 1570 CE, T. North
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Abassid Caliph al-Mansur
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Thomas North, 1570
Philosophie of the wise auncient Fathers:A work first compiled in the Indian tongue, and aftervvardes transferred into divers and sundrie other languages:
As the Persian, Arabian, Hebrue, Latine, Spanish, and Italian: and now reduced into our vulgar speeche.
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Thomas North, 1570
"Surely reader, this book shall be a looking glass for thee, wherein thou shalt most lively beholde the daily and present daungers and decytes of mans most miserable lyfe and the eyes of thy understanding shall be made open to discerne the flatteries of desceytfull men, and the wisdome of this most guileful
worlde: by means whereof ye may easily blot out many effects of this (alas) our crooked age.
This precious gem of knowledge, who so shall lodge it in the secrecie of his memory, shall never loose it but shall rather augment and
increase it with age in such sort that he shall win a marvellous commodotie. . . .
For to find so riche a treasure and not to know how to take it and laye it up; is rightly to follow him, that finding a masse of gold and silver, had
not the wyt to take it and carry it away."
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