The Great Panchatantra Tales
By:Pandit Vishnu Sharma
or more than two and a half millennia, the Panchatantra tales have regaled children and adults alike with a moral at the end of every story. Some believe that they are as old as the RigVeda. There is also another story about these fables. According to it, these are stories Shiva told his consort Parvati. The present series is based on the Sanskrit original.
A king, worried that his three sons are without the wisdom to live in a world of wile and guile, asks a learned man called Vishnu Sharman to teach them the ways of the world.
Since his wards are dimwits, Vishnu Sharman decides to pass on wisdom to them in the form of stories. In these stories, he makes animals speak like human beings. Panchatantra is a collection of attractively told stories about the five ways that help the human being succeed in life. Pancha means five and tantra means ways or strategies or principles. Addressed to the king's children, the stories are primarily about statecraft and are popular throughout the world. The five strategies are:
Discord among friends
Gaining friends
Of crows and owls
Loss of gains and
Imprudence
The stories have been translated into nearly every language in the world that has a script. The story form appeals to children while the wisdom in them attracts adults. The Panchatantra collection represents the earliest folk tale form in the world of literature. There are several versions of Panchatantra tales in circulation in the world but the one that is popular in India is the Sanskrit original of Vishnu Sharman.
Very soon, Hamarashehar.Com will bring to netizens the oldest collection of tales in the world as told by an 80-year-old teacher to his royal wards. The translation seeks to be as close to the Sanskrit original as possible in spirit.
The stories will appear in five sections, each representing a strategy for getting over problems in life. They are of interest not just for the ruling class but also for every person. They are all about survival in a complicated world and the several ways to get over problems. The stories based as they are on human nature have an eternal relevance.
The series begins with a parent story that unfolds story after story; each strung to the other by a narrator. Now, it is your turn to enjoy these stories as immortal and fragrant as the soil of India.
2006-12-13 18:03:58
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answered by Naneth 3
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Panchatantra Tales
2016-11-09 22:26:49
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answered by guiterrez 4
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Although the original author's or compiler's name is unknown, an Arabic translation from about 750 AD attributes the Panchatantra to a wise man called Bidpai, which is probably a Sanskrit word meaning "court scholar."
2006-12-13 17:46:14
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answered by tanushree5 2
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2015-08-20 14:00:39
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answered by Alden 1
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The Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra, Sanskrit पञ्चतन्त्र "Five Chapters") or Kelileh va Dimneh or Anvar-i-Suhayli or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian)or Kalilag and Damnag (in Syriac)or Kalila and Dimna (also Kalilah and Dimnah, Arabic كليلة و دمنة "Kalila wa Dimna")or The Fables of Bidpai/Pilpai (in various European languages)was originally a canonical collection of Sanskrit (Hindu) as well as Pali (Buddhist) animal fables in verse and prose.
The original Sanskrit text, now long lost, and which some scholars guess might have been written around 200 BCE, is attributed to Vishnu Sarma. However its antecedents in Indian oral literature among storytellers probably hark back to the origins of language and the subcontinent's earliest social groupings of hunting and fishing folk gathered around campfires.
Origins and Function
The work is an ancient and vigorous multicultural hybrid that to this day continues an erratic process of cross-border mutation and adaptation as modern writers and publishers struggle to fathom, simplify and re-brand its complex origins. It illustrates, for the benefit of princes who may succeed to a throne, the central Hindu principles of Raja niti (political science) through an inter-woven series of colorful animal tales. These operate like a succession of Russian dolls, one narrative opening within another, sometimes three or four deep, and then unexpectedly snapping shut in irregular rhythms to sustain attention.The five principles illustrated are:
Mitra Bhedha (The Loss of Friends)
Mitra Laabha (Gaining Friends)
Suhrudbheda (Causing Dissension Between Friends)
Vigraha (Separation)
Sandhi (Union)
2006-12-13 17:43:28
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answered by L_n_C_fReAk 3
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AUTHOR:- VISHNU SHARMA
PURPOSE;- begore a long time there lived a king.he had three children who were naughty and who showed no interest in studies.they always used 2 do some mischief in theri kingdom.
seeing this the king was worried very much.so he told to the people of his kingdom that who ever makes his cchildren
as a a intelligent(not intelligent but i do not get the exacrt word.in hindi jo bhi usko pandit banathae hi!the king says that he would give glod equal to their weight. seeing this a PANDIT KNOWN AS VISHNU SHARMA comes front to teach them and inspite of telling them VEDAS he told them PANCHATANTRA and so he brought a lot of change in these children.
This is the purpose y PANCHATANTRA was written
2006-12-16 01:59:11
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answered by srinu710 4
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Vishnu Sharma might have compiled the Pancha Tantra stories. But they are part of the Indian folk lore. They convey the basic morals or ethics a society must have, in order to have a peaceful existence.
2006-12-14 22:33:02
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-04-10 21:17:36
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answered by Anonymous
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vishnu sharma is credited with authoring/composing panchatantra to teach morals to a certain king's children to educate them morally and mould them in to ideal future kings
2006-12-13 19:06:35
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answered by pravkas 2
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Author is Vishnu Sharma
2006-12-13 17:56:00
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answered by asbharadwaj 5
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