Word: vishnu
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...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...
...well be that men today are wise enough. Reverence for antiquity has its limits. But there is consummate shrewdness in some of the things Vishnu-sharman related, putting his epigrams now into tales within tales, now into rimed quotations from religious writ. The translator suggests: "It is as if the animals in some English beast-fable were to justify their actions by quotations from Shakespeare or the Bible...