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The story of louse named  Creep and a flea named Leap. How Creep's courtesy led to killing of herself and all her family by the King's servant? Listen and Enjoy. For any feedback or comments, please reach out to admin@shabdh.com

This is the second story on Book 1 of Panchatantra. The jackal brothers Cheek and Victor are arguing over should they meddle with Rusty's affair when they are not asked. Will that lead them into issues? Victor decides to go and meet Rusty and check on him and get himself a job. See what happens and get all the learnings on the side. Please reach out to me for any feedback/help at the email admin@s...

Here another story from Panchatantra that show how men and beast are different and who can be reliable friend.

This story is again based on humans and lead actors are not animals. Hence I feel that this is added as a addition in the translations by writer later on. It is also not very suitable for young kids and hence if you want to listen to this with kids, you may like to skip this story. Since Mr Ryder had on his version on translation, I have retained it. Enjoy the story.

Numskull and the Rabbit is one of the famous Panchatantra Stories and most the Indian people have gone through this either as a kid or was included in the the course textbook. Numskull is a foolish lion full of pride. His Sanskrit name is Bhasuraka. This is a story how intelligent rabbit saves all the animals and fools Numskull with his intelligence. Enjoy the story. 

The Cunning Heron fooled the fishes and ate them on the pretext on moving them to safer place. The Crab found that out and killed the Heron and brought justice to innocent fishes that were killed the Heron.  With Intelligence much can be achieved and the Crow family finally found a way to get the Cobra killed.  Listen to this episode to know the full story.

Seventh Story in the Book Loss Of Friends. How the snake ate Crows eggs for years.

This one has three stories, Godly and June, The Jackal at the Ram-fight and The Weaver's Wife which are related to one another and are continuation. The Weaver's Wife looks like a later introduction into Panchatantra tales because the setting doesn't have animals but based on humans which is normally not the theme of Panchatantra  Mr. Ryder names have followed the literal translation and the...

Dantilla was translated to The Strong Teeth by Mr. Ryder which literally is correct but I kept it Dantilla. The merchant's story was used by Victor to convince the bull Lively to come and meet Rusty. This led to a good friendship between Rusty and Lively.

Victor the Jackal went and met Rusty the Lion. He then went on to meet Lively the bull. This is third story of Book 1, The Loss of Friends. Reach out @ admin@shabdh.com for feedback or suggestions.

The main story of Book 1 of Panchatantra that sets up the scene. The Merchant Increase (Vardhamana), two Bulls Lively and Joyful (Pingalaka and Nadaka) and two jackals Cheek and Victor (Karataka and Damanaka) are the main characters of this story.  Listen and Enjoy! Feedback Good or Bad is always welcome. Please reach out to me for any feedback/help at the email admin@shabdh.com

Panchatantra are stories written by Vishnusharma around 200 B.C. and this is the narration of translation done Arthur Ryder in 1925 and was published by University of Chicago Press. Please reach out to me for any feedback/help at the email admin@shabdh.com

Adventure of Sara and Ario. This story is narrated by me to get them to understand Covid-19 “My Hero is You” should be read by a parent, caregiver or teacher alongside a child or a small group of children ©IASC, 2020. This publication was published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0...

Two girls and their friendship in the backdrop of a temple and its old priest.

One can change the destiny even when the god of fate has written it. As believed by many in India this prince was able to change his destiny by his wit and wisdom. 

The story of a beautiful girl called Mousy and her poor parents. Her father was a sage with supernatural powers. 

King and a greedy man.

The King and how a man changed his life by thinking smartly

A foolish kind and his wise minister. A twist led by king's folly

A father and his son's journey to sell horses which turns into a very happy ending

Story of two very different childhood friends.

Story for the young. Lesson on how something small can make you mad.