Word: panchatantra
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...PANCHATANTRA - Translated by Arthur W. Ryder - University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop...
...PANCHATANTRA...
...southern country is a city called Maiden's Delight," so runs The Panchatantra's own introduction. The king there had sired three blockheads. Came a Brahman, by name Vishnu-sharman, who offered to submit himself to a certain indignity at the king's hands if within six months he had not enlightened these blockheads and bred in them the higher intelligence. This was agreed and the Brahman it was who told these stories, the blockheads to whom he told them...
...Panchatantra-Translated by Arthur W. Ryder-University of Chicago Press...
From the Indian originals the stories came down through the Sanskrit Panchatantra, the Tibetan, the Lost Pehlevi, 550 A. D., to the Arabic and Old Syriac. From the Arabic there were many effluxes, the Later Syriac, and through that the English of Keith-Falconer; the Greek of Symeon Seth and from that the Latin of Possinus; the Hebrew of Rabbi Joel and from that the "Directorium," by John of Capua, from which comes the "Buch der byspel der alten Wysen," and the "Moral Philosophia" by Doni, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1570. from the Arabic...
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