Panchatantra

Proper noun

Meaning

Panchatantra

A canonical collection of Sanskrit as well as Pali (Buddhist) animal fables in verse and prose.

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In the Panchatantra, stories are introduced as didactic analogies, with the frame story referring to these stories with variants of the phrase "If you're not careful, that which happened to the louse and the flea will happen to you." Source: Internet

Ben E. Perry (compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones. Source: Internet

The Nights, however, improved on the Panchatantra in several ways, particularly in the way a story is introduced. Source: Internet

Artiste performing a scene from Panchatantra. Source: Internet

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