The Pancatantra

Author(s)

    • Sarma, Visnu
    • Chandra Rajan

Bibliographic Information

The Pancatantra

Visnu Sarma ; translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction by Chandra Rajan

(Penguin classics)

Penguin Books India, 1993

Uniform Title

Panchatantra

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Summary: Didactic tales and fables

Includes bibliographical referneces

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of animal fables with a moral was the forerunner of Aesop's fables. The stories were orally narrated by a poet-narrator Visnu Sharma, but the first time they were put down in writing was in the 3rd or 2nd century BC by a Buddhist monk, Purnabhadra.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA25270086
  • ISBN
    • 014044596X
  • LCCN
    93910061
  • Country Code
    ii
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engsan
  • Place of Publication
    New Delhi
  • Pages/Volumes
    lv, 453 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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