X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Panchatantra


Bidpay

Panchatantra (also called The Fables of Bidpai), a collection of fables

Chanakya

One of the earliest Sanskrit literatures to identify Chanakya with Vishnugupta explicitly was Vishnu Sharma's Panchatantra in the 3rd century BC.

Tales of Count Lucanor

Story 28, "Of what happened to a woman called Truhana", a version of Aesop's The Milkmaid and Her Pail, was claimed by Max Müller to originate in the Hindu cycle Panchatantra.

Thomas North

His next work was The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570), a translation of an Italian collection of eastern fables, popularly known as The Fables of Bidpai.



see also