ISBN: 9788189999520    Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd. Year of publishing: 1973     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 32        Language: English

The original text of the Panchatantra in Sanskrit was written about 200 BC by a great Hindi scholar, Pandit Vishnu Sharma. Some of the tales themselves must be much older, their origin going back to the period of the Vedas and the Upanishads (1500 BC to 500 BC). In course of time, travellers carried these stories to Persia and Arabia and finally, through Greece, to Europe.
The Panchatantra has been translated into over 50 languages. It teaches us how to understand people, how to choose reliable and trustworthy friends, how to meet difficulties and solve problems through tact and wisdom and how to live in peace and harmony in the face of hipocrisy, deceit and the many pitfalls in life. Difficult subjects like philosophy, psychology, politics, music, astronomy, and human relations are discussed in a simple but lyrical style.
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