Word: panchatantra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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