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Mariada Ramanna

Mariada Ramanna
	The Cotton Merchants And Their Pet Cat		The Right Dromio Discovered By Artifice
	Iron-Eating Rats versus Man-Eating Kites		The Grain -Vendor Brought to his Senses
	The Thief Betrayed By His Own Conduct		The Dishonest Komati Entrapped
	The Extortionate Inn-Keeper, Or The Biter Bit		The Ear-Ring Thief Unmasked
	A Would-Be-Wife-Stealerr Foile		The Child Murderess Detected
	The Thieves Out-Witted		Thrifty versus Thriftless
	The Pearls Recovered		The Fowl Thief Herself
	The Ring Restored		A Modern Shylook And How He Was Out-Witted
	The Broken Crockery Set Off Against The Professional Elephant		The Dishonest Brother Exposed By His Sympathy With A Thief
	The False Witnesses Exposed By Their Own Conduct		The Lying Debtor Convicted Out Of His Own Mouth

Preface
The recent appearance of an English version of the well-known Tales of Tennali Rama, and the fact that that work has already reached a second edition, has induced the translator to make an attempt at preserving and presenting to the foreign reader this interesting batch of equally popular tales.

Whether such a prodigy of judicial and detective acumen, as Mariada Ramanna is depicted, really existed or whether the character is only the creation of a luxuriant brain, like Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, "deponent sayeth not," but the tales will be found to display on the part of the hero, illimitable resource in the art of detection, a profound insight into human nature, and a remarkable perspicacity in the unravelling of the truth.

They are also not devoid of interest as affording the foreign reader a peep into the inner life and customs of the Hindus in Southern India.

Some of these tales at all events, may help to provoke a hearty laugh, and to laugh now and then, we are somewhere told, is good and wholesome for us all.

Great Epics
	Dhruva		Harischandra
	Krishna		Mahabali
	Mahabharata		Mariada Ramanna
	Panchtantra		Prahlada
	Samudra Manthanam		Savitri
	Valmiki Ramayana