The Panchatantra: World Literature Before “World Literature”
Abstract The Panchatantra ( Pañcatantra ) is the most famous collection of Indian fables. The oldest written versions are in Sanskrit and date from early in the first millennium ce . The individual narratives that make up the collection are arranged within a frame‐story of an elderly brahmin charged...
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Wiley
2019
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0045 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0045 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0045 |