Who is Mowgli

Now this is the Law of the Jungle
- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper,
but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

Mowgli is a fictional character of a feral boy who is raised by wolves that originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in "Many Inventions", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" (1894-1895), which also featured non-Mowgli stories.

The Mowgli stories including "In the Rukh" were first collected in chronological order in one volume as "The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book" (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in "All the Mowgli Stories" (1933).

(...from Wikipedia)

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

"In the Rukh" describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in India discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skill at hunting and tracking, and asks him to join the forestry service. Later Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli's amazing talents: he was raised by wild animals in the jungle.

After "In the Rukh", Kipling wrote the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail. Lost by his parents in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, a human baby is adopted by the mother wolf Raksha and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli the Frog because of his lack of fur. Shere Khan the tiger demands the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli is raised with and runs naked with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves.

Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli-- partly because Mowgli as a human has dominion over beasts whether he wants it or realizes it. Bagheera is by no means a pet, but he cannot withstand Mowgli's gaze. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in The Law of the Jungle.

Mowgli has many adventures among the talking animals in his jungle paradise, assuming ever-increasing mastery as he approaches manhood. Shere Khan regards Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds the one weapon he can use against the tiger - fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli returns to the human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband who believe he is their own long-lost son Nathoo. (In fact we never find out if this is true.)

While herding buffalo for the village Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves he traps Shere Khan in a ravine, where the buffalo trample him. The tiger immediately dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. Seeing this, the villagers persecute Mowgli and his adopted parents as witches. Mowgli runs back to the jungle but soon learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband, so he rescues them and sends elephants, buffalo and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground. During his time in the village Mowgli wears clothing, but discards it again to run naked when he returns to the wild.

These are but a few of Mowgli's great adventures. It is worth a look to see what they all are and to read the songs.

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle,
and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken -
it may be fair words shall prevail.

Now these are the Laws of the jungle,
and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law
and the haunch and the hump is - Obey!.

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