• is as a beast of the field. —Hitopadesa Translator: Charles Wilkins Hitopadesha (Sanskrit: हितोपदेशः, IAST: Hitopadeśa, "Beneficial Advice") is an Indian...
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  • Ryder's English translation of 1925, and Chandra Rajan's of 1993. Nara — Hitopadesha by Narayana is probably the most popular version in India, and was the...
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    translated popular texts such as the fables of the Panchatantra and the Hitopadesha, as well as in Southeast Asian texts. Myth is a genre of folklore or...
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  • means a collection. e.g."katha manjari" (= a collection of stories like Hitopadesha). Manjari is used in many languages of Indian subcontinent like Nepali...
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    and the Jataka tales. These included Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, the Hitopadesha, Vikram and The Vampire, and Syntipas' Seven Wise Masters, which were...
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  • or Narayana, was the Brāhmaṇa author of the Sanskrit treatise called Hitopadesha — a work based primarily on the Panchatantra, one of the oldest collection...
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  • Panchatantra, Syntipas's The Seven Wise Masters, and the fable collections Hitopadesha and Vikram and The Vampire. This form gradually spread west through the...
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    collections of legends, folktales, fairy tales, and fables are Panchatantra, Hitopadesha and Kathasaritsagara. Jataka tales, originally written in Pali, is a...
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  • of Pataliputra. Scholars presume that the work was modelled after the Hitopadesha. The Kāmandakīya Nītisāra is considered to be a post-Mauryan treatise...
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  • in the novel, to his friends over seven afternoons, in the style of Hitopadesha or Panchatantra. The novel looks at the disappointments in love faced...
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