Panchatantra - Wikipedia
The Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, Sanskrit: पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. [2] The surviving work is dated to about 300 CE, but the fables are likely much more ancient.
Panchatantra | Structure, Content, & Translations | Britannica
2024年12月2日 · The Panchatantra is a popular collection of Sanskrit beast fables composed about 200 BCE, according to Sanskrit scholar Johannes Hertel. The work has been widely circulated and translated, both in India, its country of origin, and throughout the world.
五卷书 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书
五卷书 （梵文：पञ्चतन्त्र Pañca-tantra）， 古印度 韵文 寓言 集，原以梵文和 巴利文 写成。 据考证最早版本的五卷书当出现于前3世纪，但久已佚失，传说其作者名叫 毗湿奴沙玛。 现存的文本最早可以追述到6世纪时，此后该书被译成各种文字，包含 巴列维文 和 叙利亚文 [1]，传播到世界各国 [2]。 在欧洲被称作《比德佩寓言》（The Fables of Bidpai）。 1964年 人民文学出版社 出版 季羡林 译《五卷书》全译本。 《五卷书》的成书年代已不可考，季羡林认为，印度的寓言 …
Tales of Panchatantra | English Moral Stories with Pics
The Panchatantra is a compilation of inter-woven series of tales in prose and poetry, mostly animal fables. It was compiled in Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Bhuddhist). The compilation, attributed to Pandit Vishnu Sharma, is considered by most scholars to be dated around 3rd century BCE, and to be based on older oral civilization.
The Panchatantra - University of Pittsburgh
One of India's most influential contributions to world literature, the Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra or Pañca-tantra) consists of five books of animal fables and magic tales (some 87 stories in all) that were compiled, in their current form, between the third and fifth centuries AD.
Panchatantra
The Panchatantra is an ancient collection of animal fables told in 300 BCE by Vishnu Sharma. It teaches us life lessons through engaging animal fables. Panchatantra has stories divided into 5 tantras or chapters. Each of these tantras has a main thread story which expands on the main theme of the tantra by including many sub-stories.
Panchatantra - New World Encyclopedia
The Panchatantra is an ancient synthetic text that continues its process of cross-border mutation and adaptation as modern writers and publishers struggle to fathom, simplify and re-brand its complex origins.
The Panchatantra, in Sanskrit and English - Shreevatsa
This website contains the Panchatantra in Sanskrit, aligned with corresponding sections of a delightful English translation. Possible ways to use this website: Read the English translation, looking at the Sanskrit text whenever something seems interesting or unclear.
Panchatantra - Wikisource, the free online library
2017年1月2日 · In India, the Panchatantra is the mother of all fables, compiled from orally available ancient fables by Vishnu Sharma, presumably in the third century B.C. Regarded as the most widely translated non-religious text in history, the Panchatantra was translated into Middle Persian/Pahlavi in the sixth century and into Arabic in the eighth century.
Panchatantra - Long long time ago
Composed in India around 300 CE, the Panchatantra contains some of the oldest fables in the world. Some of its stories can be traced as far back as 1500 BCE, to the ancient Sanskrit text, the Rig Veda; many of its stories are even older.