How Panchatantra travelled around the world & became the subject of art

“No other work of Hindu literature has played so important a part in the literature of the world as the Sanskrit story-collection [called] the Pañcatantra.” (Edgerton, The Pañcatantra Reconstructed, 1924, p. 4). In this video column, author and columnist Patrick Olivelle tells us about how no other book from ancient India has been, and continues to be, loved more by people in India and across the globe than the Panchatantra. The Panchatantra was probably composed around 300 CE, although this, as most ancient Indian dates, is an educated guess. What we know for sure is that it was translated into the old Iranian language of Pahlavi around 550 CE by a Persian doctor named Burzoe.
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