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An illustrated collection of retold Indian legends and folktales that brings together short narratives about royal figures, sages, and supernatural bird-people. Each tale presents a self-contained incident—tests of justice and honor, acts of loyalty and sacrifice, choices of love, and miraculous transformations—often concluding with a moral insight about leadership, friendship, or fate. The pieces range from fable-like parables to mythic episodes, arranged as independent stories suitable for younger and general readers seeking brief, character-driven folklore.
Everyone knows the name of Dhritarashtra, the uncle of the five great soldier-men, the Pandavas.
Dhritarashtra was blind; and Dhritarashtra was alone in his blindness.
And when Gandhari, his bride, saw the hurt of his loneliness—“Let me in to him behind his bars of darkness,” she said to the gods.
And she bound her eyes tightly; and day and night were alike to her for ever. But Dhritarashtra was no more lonely in his night of sightlessness.