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  2. List of Panchatantra stories - Wikipedia

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    List of. Panchatantra. stories. 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 ...

  3. Panchatantra - Wikipedia

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    Panchatantra: Smart, The Jackal Book 1: The Loss of Friends Translator: Arthur William Ryder The Panchatantra is a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. Its narrative illustrates, for the benefit of three ignorant princes, the central Hindu principles of nīti. While nīti is hard to translate, it roughly means ...

  4. Vishnu Sharma - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. The Brahmin and the Mongoose - Wikipedia

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    The Brahmin and the Mongoose (or The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose) is a folktale from India, and "one of the world's most travelled tales". [1] It describes the rash killing of a loyal animal, and thus warns against hasty action. The story underlies certain legends in the West, such as that of Llywelyn and his dog Gelert in Wales, [1] or ...

  6. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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

  7. The Blue Jackal - Wikipedia

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    The Story of the Blue Jackal is one story in the Panchatantra. One evening when it was dark, a hungry jackal went in search of food in a large village close to his home in the jungle. The local dogs didn't like Jackals and chased him away so that they could make their owners proud by killing a beastly jackal.

  8. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal - Wikipedia

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    an illustration of a variant of the tale. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian folklore with a long history and many variants. The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old ...

  9. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Wikipedia

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    In the anime television series, Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a supporting character who is the pet of an Indian family and is a heroic defender of them. In the CGI series The Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is an occasional character who is a friend of Mowgli. The story was adapted as a picture book of the same name in 1997 by ...