PANCHATANTRA

pŭnˌchətŭnˈtrə [Sanskrit,=five treatises], anonymous collection of animal fables in Sanskrit literature, probably compiled before a.d. 500 (see Bidpai). The work, derived from Buddhistic sources, was intended as a manual for the instruction of sons of the royalty. The fables are in prose, with interspersions of aphoristic verse. The stories in the Panchatantra appear to have entered European literature circuitously through an Arabic version (c.a.d. 750) of the translation into Syriac of the Pahlavi (literary Persian) translation (c.a.d. 550) from the original. A variant spelling is Pancatantra.

See the translation from the Sanskrit by A. W. Ryder (1925, repr. 1956).

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books on: Panchatantra  - 119 results

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Framing the Canterbury Tales: Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition
Book by Katharine S. Gittes; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey--d. 1400--Canterbury tales, Chaucer, Geoffrey--d. 1400--Technique, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Frame-stories--History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Storytelling in literature
...concern of intelligence exemplifies the Panchatantra s preoccupation with secular wisdom...preponderance of beast fables in the Panchatantra is known. Some critics speculate that...7 Arthur W. Ryders edition of the Panchatantra refers directly to transmigration several...
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History of the Graeco-Latin Fable - Vol. 1
Book by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Leslie A. Ray, Gert-Jan van Dijk; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Fables, Classical--History And Criticism
...their influence on recent stages of the Panchatantra, undoubtedly through this path: it...Greek influences at the origin of the Panchatantra (of the Tantrdkhydyika, to be more...fables into the Arab translation of the Panchatantra (the Kalilah wa-Dimnah) and in...
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Narrative Sculpture and Literary Traditions in South and Southeast Asia
Book by Marijke J. Klokke; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Art And Literature--Asia, Southeastern, Art And Literature--South Asia, Art, Hindu--Asia, Southeastern, Art, Hindu--South Asia, Buddhist Art And Symbolism--Asia, Southeastern, Buddhist Art And Symbolism--South Asia
...of India 55 Hertel J. 1908-12 The Panchatantra: a collection of ancient Hindu tales...Harward Oriental Series 11-14 1915 The Panchatantra; a collection of ancient Hindu tales...Huilgol Varadaraj 1976 Durgasimhana Panchatantra Samikshe. Hubli: Sahitya Bhandar...
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The Folktale
Book by Stith Thompson; Dryden Press, 1946
Subjects: Fiction, Tales--History And Criticism
...Introduction to his edition of the Panchatantra in 1859. This doctrine was so important...dissemination of the stories contained in the Panchatantra are concerned, it is clear that in...translations of the groundwork of the Panchatantra or Kalilah and Dimnah only through...
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Folktales of the Jews - Vol. 2
Book by Dan Ben-Amos; Jewish Publication Society, 2006
Subjects: Jews--Folklore, Legends, Jewish, Legends, Jewish--History And Criticism, Sephardim--Folklore, Tales--History And Criticism
...Sept. 30, 1960). 2. Edgerton, The Panchatantra Reconstructed; Hertel, The Panchatantra: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Tales...Literature, 25-62; and W. Brown, The Panchatantra in Modern Indian Folklore. 3. Clouston...
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journal articles on: Panchatantra  - 18 results

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The Teacher and the Taught: Structures and Meaning in the Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra
Journal article by Sadhana Naithani; Marvels & Tales, Vol. 18, 2004
Subjects: Asian literature, Folklore, Literary criticism
...Meaning in the Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra by Sadhana Naithani The Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra are both works of Asian origin, and...continents for many centuries. The Panchatantra has been considered to be the older...
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Channabasappa Soodayya Patil 1951-2001
Journal article by Carla M. Sinopoli, Kathleen D. Morrison; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 42, 2003
Subjects: Archaeologists--Biography, Karnataka, India--History, Patil, Channabasappa Soodayya--Biography
...southern India, particularly those depicting Panchatantra stories. He documented more than 100 narrative...Mysore. >1994 Karnataka Sipagalalli Panchatantra (Panchatantra in Karnataka Sculptures, Kannada). Directorate...
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Narrating Animals on the Screen of the World
Journal article by Mary-Louise Totton; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Architecture, Art history, Sculpture
...impulsive, and scheming. In the Tantri (Panchatantra) tale of the monkey that outwits a...metaphor for cruel government.32 In the Panchatantra (1.1) the jackal/dog is simply...literature of the period. Pali jatakas, Panchatantra stories, as well as the Old Javanese...
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How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the "Walled-Up Wife" Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics
Journal article by Alan Dundes; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 108, 1995
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...folklore had originated in India was Theodor Benfeys (1809-1881) introduction to the first German translation of the Panchatantra in 1859. Champions of the "Indianist" school of folkloristics included William Clouston ( 1843-1896 ), Joseph Jacobs...
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Luckless, Witless, and Filthy-Footed A Sociocultural Study and Publishing History Analysis of "The Lazy Boy"
Journal article by Ruth B. Bottigheimer; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 106, 1993
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...of the literature of diligence and laziness, sloth has been treated since the earliest versions of Aesops Tales and the Panchatantra , but the way sloth is depicted in "Lazy Boy" tales is frequently extended by the appearance of automatons: a water bucket...
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Lourdes Alvaraz on Arabic Storytelling
Magazine article by Brock L. Bevan; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 24, March 2005
Subjects: Alvarez, Lourdes, Arabs, Middle Eastern literature, Public speaking
...Alvarez explained, in such places as Persia and India. The Panchatantra (five discourses), for instance, originated in ancient...animal fables intended to instruct the sons of royalty, the Panchatantra was first translated into Pahlavi (an ancient form of Persian...
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The Moral Imperative for Sustainable Communities
Magazine article by Randall Reid; Public Management, Vol. 91, May 2009
Subjects: Community development--Planning, Local government--Environmental policy, Local government--United States, Sustainable development--Planning
...The Golden Rule: A Relevant Foundation for Sustainable Communities. Hinduism Never do to other what would pain you. Panchatantra 3.104 Buddhism Hurt not other with that which hurts yourself. Udana 5.18 Zoroastrianism Do not to others what is not...
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Through the Looking Glass: The Oriental Roots of Mickey Mouse and Brer Rabbit Are a Well-Kept Secret. but for Centuries Animal Fables Have Bridged the Divide between East and West, Finds Marina Warner
Magazine article by Marina Warner; New Statesman, Vol. 135, June 5, 2006
Subjects: Fables--Forecasts and trends
...many of Aesops fables, and both collections descend from a Persian version, itself deriving ultimately from the Sanskrit Panchatantra, written in the 2nd century BCE. La Fontaine, the defining ironist of French worldly wisdom, willingly admitted his dependence...
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A Passage from India: The Dancing Daughters
Magazine article by Laura Bleiberg; Dance Magazine, Vol. 74, June 2000
Subjects: Dancers--Conduct of life, Dancing--India
...areas with her choreography. She collaborated with the director of a local ballet school on a performance and translated The Panchatantra, an ancient text of animal fables, into a bharata natyam concert. Shes at a crossroads now, trying to figure out what...


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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 3, 2010
Jonathan Cainer. Byline: JONATHAN CAINER Dear Jonathan, The Hindu scholarly work Panchatantra indicates that people start a relationship when they walk seven steps together, exchange seven words together and dine at each...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 3, 2010
Jonathan Cainer. Byline: JONATHAN CAINER Dear Jonathan, The Hindu scholarly work Panchatantra indicates that people start a relationship when they walk seven steps together, exchange seven words together and dine at each...
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Theatre Group Is Creating Hullabaloo; ARTS DIARY
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 16, 2009
Subjects: Theater
...Hullabaloo worked with worldrenowned choreographer Lata Pada in creating the work, which draws on the Indian fables of The Panchatantra to create a vibrant fusion of theatre, traditional Indian and Western dance, movement, puppetry and music. Lata is a...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 3, 2010
Jonathan Cainer. Byline: JONATHAN CAINER Dear Jonathan, The Hindu scholarly work Panchatantra indicates that people start a relationship when they walk seven steps together, exchange seven words together and dine at each...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 3, 2010
Jonathan Cainer. Byline: JONATHAN CAINER Dear Jonathan, The Hindu scholarly work Panchatantra indicates that people start a relationship when they walk seven steps together, exchange seven words together and dine at each...
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encyclopedia articles on: Panchatantra  - 4 results

 
 
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Panchatantra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PANCHATANTRA pun ch tun tr Sanskrit,=five treatises, anonymous collection of...prose, with interspersions of aphoristic verse. The stories in the Panchatantra appear to have entered European literature circuitously through an Arabic...
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Sanskrit Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...stories until there are many levels to the narrative. The Panchatantra is the most important work in this style. The sententious...its height in the Hitopadesa, which was derived from the Panchatantra. Sanskrit literature of the modern period consists mainly...
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Fable
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits. The oldest known fables are those in the Panchatantra, a collection of fables in Sanskrit, and those attributed to the Greek Aesop, perhaps the most famous of all fabulists...
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Bidpai
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BIDPAI or Bidpay both: bid pi, supposed name of the author of the fables of the Panchatantra . The name first appears in an Arabic version of these fables hence they are called the fables of Bidpai. The word is probably...


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