Welcome to The Asian Tapestry, a podcast about myths, legends and lore from Asia, structured in a book-like format, called The Book of Fables. This is a tale from India.

Our tale begins on one particularly hot summer’s day in a city in India. The city was bustling with people as they rushed to the market to sell and buy their goods. As one fisherwoman walked by the royal palace holding a basket of fish on her head and hawking her wares, the Queen leaned out of her window…

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Time stamps:

00:00:00 - Chapter start

00:00:29 - Intro

00:01:25 - Story start

00:03:55 - The impossible task

00:05:13 - The Vizier’s son meets an old farmer

00:14:23 - The wise daughter meets the wise son

00:16:26 - The vizier is saved

00:18:36 - Tale ends

00:18:58 - End comments

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CREDITS

Tales: Folk-Tales of Bengal by the Rev. Lal Behari Day, with illustrations by Warwick Goble (1912)

Intro music: Jalandhar by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3934-jalandhar

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

End Music: Raga- Dance of Music by Aakash Ghandi (YouTube Audio Library)

Naya Gosh’ music class from freesound.org

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