Shuka Saptati or seventy tales of the parrot is a well known cycle of stories in classical Sanskrit literature. The tales are told by a pet parrot to its young mistress to distract her from going to her lover during her husband's absence on a journey abroad.for seventy night the bird detains the heroine Prabhavati at home with accounts of illicit liasions, ensuing complications and clever escape. These irreverent sometimes ribald and always uninhibited tales of passion and intrigue cunning and credulity are interspersed with cynical verse homilies and wise precepts from famous classic.