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Fall of the Indigo Jackal, The: The Discourse of Division and Purnabhadra's Pancatantra
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A jackal, who had fallen into a vat of indigo dye, decided to exploit his marvellous new appearance and declared himself king of the forest. He appointed the lions and other animals as his vassals, but took the precaution of having all his fellow jackals driven into exile. One day, hearing the howls of the other jackals in the distance, the indigo jackal's eyes filled with tears of joy and he let forth a piercing cry. The lions and the others, realising the jackal's true nature, sprang on him and killed him. This well-known story and many others like it are found in a recension of the Pancatantra, a collection of Sanskrit tales for children, compiled by a Jaina monk named Purnabhadra in the twelfth century CE. Why did the indigo jackal fall from power, and why was his demise inevitable? What social forces are at work here? What discourses give shape and structure to this and other narratives in the Pancatantra? What enables these discursive statements to function effectively? In the first chapter of this thesis, I provide a general introduction to the Pancatantra, its history and development. I describe its place in Indian and world literature, its structure and content, and I summarise the debates about its 'moral' and 'meaning' with specific reference to Purnabhadra's recension. This is followed by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the Pancatantra and a formulation of the questions to be addressed in this thesis. The fictional meta-society of the Pancatantra is a…
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“No doubt, this is why the ancient law-giver Manu advises, in the Mānava Dharma Śāstra (4.115), that”
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“In the Mahābhārata (2.55.2-3) epic, for example, the evil Duryodhana, who is destined to bring about the ruin of his family,”
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“As noted by Taylor (2007, pp. 56-57), the jackal's association with death, inauspiciousness, and the eating of corpses goes all the way back to the Vedic Atharva Veda, and lends a sinister interpretation to the jackal's howl, which generally augurs doom and misfortune.”
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“The imagery surrounding jackals in Pāli Buddhist sources is consistent, moreover, with the imagery found elsewhere in South Asian tradition, for example, in Vedic and classical Hindu texts.”
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“All of these assumptions, Taylor argues, are likewise meant to be applied to the human categories of class and caste-varn .a and jāti-which are likewise immutable, hierarchically arranged, and determined solely by birth.”
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- Taylor, Mccomas
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
- Keywords
- Pañcatantra, Jaina literature, jati, caste, regimes of truth, moral tales, social hierarchy, animal fables, Jainism
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