fable

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Spoken Sanskrit

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   कथा  kathA f.
   fable   
   कथाराम  kathArAma m.
   garden of fable    
   भावना  bhAvanA f.
   moral of a fable   
   लोककथा  lokakathA f.
   popular legend or fable    
   कथासङ्ग्रह  kathAsaGgraha m.
   collection of tales or fables  
   काकतालीय  kAkatAlIya n.
   fable of the crow and the palm-fruit   
   अजाकृपाणीय  ajAkRpANIya adj.
   like the goat and shears in the fable   
   कथाच्छल  kathAcchala n.
   device or artifice or guise of fables   
   कथाछल  kathAchala n.
   device or artifice or guise of fables  
   शकटारोपाख्यान  zakaTAropAkhyAna n.
   episode or fable of the monkey zakaTAra   
   अस्ति  asti ind.
   sometimes used as a mere particle at the beginning of fables  
   वेतालपञ्चविंशतिका  vetAlapaJcaviMzatikA f.
   collection of 25 tales or fables told by a vetAla or demon to king Vikramaditya   
   वेतालपञ्चविंशति  vetAlapaJcaviMzati f.
   collection of 25 tales or fables told by a vetAla or demon to king Vikramaditya  
   कल्पतरु  kalpataru m.
   one of the five trees of svarga or indra's paradise fabled to fulfil all desires     
            

Monier Williams

English

 FABLE,  s.
  (Feigned story) पुरावृत्तकथा,  पुरावृत्तोपाख्यानं,  कूटाथी
पाख्यानं। उपाख्यानं,  आख्यानं,  आख्यायिका,  कथा,  परिकथा,  इतिहासः
— (Fiction) कल्पनासृष्टिः f.
 ,  प्रवन्धकल्पना,  मनःकल्पितं,  व्यपदेशः.

 To FABLE,  v. a.
   and n.
  पुरावृत्तकथां रच् (c.  10. रचयति -यितुं),  विरच्
मनसा कॢप् (c.  10. कल्पयति -यितुं) or सृज् (c.  6. सृजति,  स्रष्टुं)
मिथ्याकथा रच्.

Borooah

English

 FABLE:
II Lit.: कथा: v.
  Story.
II False-
-hood: q.v.
  

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