Jataka Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jataka Tales, credited to Ellen C. Babbitt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are famous children stories and some of the stories like the "the turtle who couldn't stop talking" and "the King's White Elephant" are so famous that they are enacted as short plays in schools and are cited as an example in daily conversations. All the stories in this collective work have a moral, most likely being narrated by an animal.(Summary by sidhu177)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jataka Tales
• Author credits: Ellen C. Babbitt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:30

Catalogue topics

• advice, animals, children, comedy
• Indian
• tales

Track guide

1. 00 - PUBLISHER'S NOTE — 3:02
2. 01 - THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE — 4:34
3. 02 - HOW THE TURTLE SAVED HIS OWN LIFE — 2:48
4. 03 - THE MERCHANT OF SERI — 5:45
5. 04 - THE TURTLE WHO COULDN'T STOP TALKING — 2:04
6. 05 - THE OX WHO WON THE FORFEIT — 3:31
7. 06 - THE SANDY ROAD — 6:50
8. 07 - THE QUARREL OF THE QUAILS — 3:19
9. 08 - THE MEASURE OF RICE — 3:50
10. 09 - THE FOOLISH, TIMID RABBIT — 3:36
11. 10 - THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH MERCHANT — 7:37
12. 11 - THE ELEPHANT GIRLY-FACE — 3:07
13. 12 - THE BANYAN DEER — 3:35
14. 13 - THE PRINCES AND THE WATER-SPRITE — 6:56
15. 14 - THE KING'S WHITE ELEPHANT — 2:38
16. 15 - THE OX WHO ENVIED THE PIG — 1:42
17. 16 - GRANNY'S BLACKIE — 5:40
18. 17 - THE CRAB AND THE CRANE — 7:26
19. 18 - WHY THE OWL IS NOT KING OF THE BIRDS — 3:36

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