Shuka Saptati: Seventy Tales of the Parrot

Shuka Sptati or Seventy Tales
of the Parrot is a famous cycle of stories in Sanskrit literature. The tales
are told by a pet parrot to its young mistress to distract her from going to
a lover while her husband has gone abroad. These irreverent, sometimes
ribald, always uninhibited accounts of illicit liaisons, ensuing
complications and clever escapes are set amidst the common life of towns and
villages in India as it was then.