<-3-%,->m-,{8v-;{k   The tale of "The Doting Mongoose" has elements no doubt familiar to readers. This is a tale from the Pañcatantra collection of fables in India--made famous to English-speaking audiences by Rudyard Kipling in his short story, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. The tale of the heroic mongoose, who rescues the son of a household from a cobra, is retold in a second-grade Tibetan schoolbook published in Dharamsala below.

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Reference:

"Sha tsha can gyi ne'u le." In 'Dzin grwa gnyis pa'i bod yig slob deb rig pa'i nyin byed. Dharamsala: Sherig Parkhang, 1999.

Read the Pañcatantra version: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/panchatantra.html#mongoose