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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book.
The essence of the story, however, remains the same. Similarly, variants of the story sometimes have the man, instead of his wife, killing the loyal animal. [6] The story is sometimes placed within a frame story, where a saviour stands mistakenly accused and narrates this story, thereby preventing his own death. [7]
Book 5 of the Panchatantra includes a story about a mongoose and a snake, which was likely an inspiration for the story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. [ 44 ] Book five of the text is, like book four, a simpler compilation of moral-filled fables.
1 Here the reference is to the Panchatantra story of the woman who killed a mongoose assuming that it had killed her child. She later learned that the mongoose had in fact saved the child by killing a snake that was about to bite the child. Thus, she had to grieve on account of her thoughtless action. 2 A kalpa is equal to a day of Brahma the ...
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
(6 additional stories) 134-139 The greedy barber's folly V.2 II.2 V.Frame III.10; IV.13 The three proverbs which stopped king from killing his own wives II.2.1 On hasty actions: Killing a mongoose in haste: 178A [12] V.Frame II.Frame 140 V.1 The wheel on the head of the excessively greedy V.2 The dead lion III.6 V.3 The tale of two fishes and a ...
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A mongoose also joins the two children, saving them from trouble a few times along the way and earning Nisha's appreciation. They finally reach the first trial of the Brotherhood: a raging river none of them can cross. The mongoose, however, steps into the river, which stills as the animal and the two children make their way across.