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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
English: Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art The Talkative Turtle, a fable in Pancatantra Artist/maker unknown, Rajasthan, India, 18th century Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
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).
Manuscript Kalīla wa-Dimna or Kelileh o Demneh ( Persian : کلیله و دمنه ) is a collection of fables. The book consists of fifteen chapters containing many fables whose heroes are animals.
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."
The prelude narrates the story of how Vishnu Sharma supposedly created the Panchatantra. There was a king called Sudarshan [ citation needed ] who ruled a kingdom, whose capital was a city called Mahilaropya (महिलारोप्य), whose location on the current map of India is unknown. [ 9 ]
The oldest manuscript found in Nepal has been dated to the 14th century, ... the Panchatantra is the primary source of some 75% of the Hitopadesha's content, ...