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Vis̥nu̥ Śarma ; translated fro ...
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First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed the great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals, and together intended to provide the young princes with vital guidance for life. Since first leaving India before AD 570, the Pancatantra has been widely translated and has influenced a cast number of works in India, the Arab world and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales and the Fables of La Fontaine. Enduring and profound, it is among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables.

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
453

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Subjects
Fiction, Literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), India, fiction, Indic Fables, Translations into English

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The Pancatantra
2008, Penguin Group UK
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The Pancatantra (Penguin Classics)
July 31, 2007, Penguin Classics
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The Panćatantra
2006, Penguin
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The Pancatantra (Penguin Classics)
October 25, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
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London, New York

Edition Notes

Originally published: Penguin, 1993.

Translated from the Sanskrit.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.

Series
Penguin classics
Genre
Translations into English.
Other Titles
Panchatantra. English.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.24520934
Library of Congress
PK3741.P3 E5 2006, PK3741.P3

The Physical Object

Pagination
lv, 453 p. ;
Number of pages
453

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23088767M
ISBN 10
0140455205
ISBN 13
9780140455205
OCLC/WorldCat
65764202
Library Thing
1171412
Goodreads
1141797

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