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A Panchatantra manuscript page. The third treatise discusses war and peace, presenting through animal characters a moral about the battle of wits being a strategic means to neutralize a vastly superior opponent's army. The thesis in this treatise is that a battle of wits is a more potent force than a battle of swords. [39]
English: Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art A fable in Pancatantra Artist/maker unknown, Rajasthan, India, 18th century Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper Classification: Manuscripts
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The Panchatantra is an ancient Sanskrit collection of stories, probably first composed around 300 CE (give or take a century or two), [1] though some of its component stories may be much older. The original text is not extant, but the work has been widely revised and translated such that there exist "over 200 versions in more than 50 languages."
Durgasimha (c. 1025) was the minister of war and peace (Sandhi Vigrahi) of Western Chalukya King Jayasimha II (also known as Jagadekamalla, r. 1018–1042). [1] Durgasimha adapted the well-known set of fables, Panchatantra ("The five stratagems"), from Sanskrit language into the Kannada language in champu style (mixed prose and verse).
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on as.wikipedia.org পঞ্চতন্ত্ৰ; Usage on bg.wikipedia.org Панчатантра
The book is based on the c. 200 BC Sanskrit text Panchatantra. It was translated into Middle Persian in the sixth century by Borzuya. [1] [2] [3] It was subsequently translated into Arabic in the eighth century by the Persian Ibn al-Muqaffa'. [4] King Vakhtang VI of Kartli made a translation from Persian to Georgian in the 18th century. [5]
It published a number of books written, compiled or translated by Jwala Prasad Mishra (1861-1916 CE), the head pandit at Muradabad Kameshwar Sanskrit pathshala during the early 1900s that include Panchatantra (1910), Vajasaneyi Sri Sukla Yajuevedasamhita (1912), Bihari Satsai, Dayananda-Timira-Bhaskara (1913), Jati Bhaskar (published in 1926 ...