Ascribed by legend to the celebrated half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma, the fables of The Pancatantrawere first recorded 1,500 years ago but date back to India’s robust oral tradition. Widely translated, they have influenced a vast number of works in India, the Arab world, and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales, and the Fables of La Fontaine.

Visnu Sarma is thought to have been a celebrated teacher who, at the age of eighty, composed the stories of The Pancatantra to educate three idle princes in the art of governance.
Chandra Rajan studied English and Sanskrit at St. Stephen-'s College, Delhi, and has taught English at Delhi University and the University of Western Ontario.

The Pancatantra : preamble
Estrangement of friends	p. 7
Frame story : lively and tawny	p. 9
The monkey and the wedge	p. 15
The jackal and the battle-drum	p. 31
Fine tooth and the palace sweeper	p. 38
The holy man and the swindler and the weaver's unfaithful wife	p. 46
The crow and the serpent	p. 62
The crab and the crane	p. 64
Dim wit and the hare	p. 69
The weaver and princess charming	p. 76
The grateful beasts and the ungrateful man	p. 98
Crawly, the bedbug and drone, the wasp	p. 105
The blue jackal	p. 108
The owl and the wild goose	p. 114
The camel, the crow and others	p. 120
The lion and the chariot-maker	p. 126
The lapwing who defied the ocean	p. 130
The turtle and the geese	p. 132
The three fishes	p. 133
The sparrow and the tusker	p. 137
The ancient wild goose and the fowler	p. 141
The lion and the lone Ram	p. 143
The jackal who outwitted the lion	p. 147
Strong and the naked mendicant	p. 157
The maiden wedded to a snake	p. 159
Death and little blossom	p. 162
The tailor-bird and the ape	p. 164
Fair mind and foul mind	p. 166
The foolish heron	p. 169
The preposterous lie	p. 172
The twin parrots	p. 177
The three friends and the noble robber and faithful but foolish	p. 178
Winning of friends	p. 191
Frame story : the crow, the mole, the deer and the tortoise	p. 193
Bharunda birds	p. 195
Goldy's sorrows	p. 210
Mother Sandilee	p. 213
The greedy jackal	p. 215
The man who received what was his	p. 226
Little simple, the weaver	p. 238
Hangballs and the vixen	p. 242
The mice that freed the elephants	p. 251
Speckle's captivity	p. 256
Of crows and owls	p. 265
Frame story : of crows and owls	p. 267
How the birds picked a king	p. 280
The hare who fooled the elephant-king	p. 284
The cat's judgement	p. 290
The brahmana and his goat	p. 298
The ants who killed the snake	p. 300
The serpent who paid in gold	p. 305
The golden geese of lotus lake	p. 306
The dove who sacrificed himself	p. 308
Old man, young wife	p. 314
The brahmana, the robber, and the demon	p. 316
The snake in the prince's belly	p. 319
The chariot-maker cuckolded	p. 321
The mouse-maiden who wed a mouse	p. 325
The bird who dropped golden turd	p. 331
The talking cave	p. 333
The frogs that rode snakeback	p. 340
The brahmana's revenge	p. 342
Loss of gains	p. 351
Frame story : the ape and the crocodile	p. 353
The frog-king who overreached himself	p. 360
Long ears and dusty	p. 366
The potter who played the hero	p. 370
The jackal mothered by the lioness	p. 372
The ungrateful wife	p. 375
Two henpecked husbands	p. 378
The ass in tiger-skin	p. 379
The unfaithful wife	p. 382
The officious sparrow	p. 385
The smart jackal	p. 387
The dog who went abroad	p. 391
Rash deeds	p. 393
Frame story : the barber who slaughtered the monks	p. 395
The brahmani and the faithful mongoose	p. 400
The four treasure-seekers	p. 402
The Scholars who brought a dead lion to life	p. 409
Thousandwit, hundredwit, singlewit	p. 411
The singing ass	p. 413
The dull-witted weaver	p. 416
The day-dreaming brahmin	p. 419
The ape's revenge	p. 421
The credulous Ogre	p. 427
The three-breasted princess	p. 430
The brahmana who asked	p. 430
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