Stories from the Panchatantra

The Following five stories are included in this 5 in 1 Amar Chitra Katha
The Jackal and the War Drum
The Brahmin and the Goat
How the Jackal ate the Elephant
Crows and Owls
The Dullard and other Stories

Description
The original text of the Panchatantra in Sanskrit was written about 200 B.C. by a great Hindu scholar, Pandit Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales are much older, their origin going back to the period of the Vedas and the Upanishads (1500 B.C. to 500 B.C.).

The Panchatantra is woven around the tale of a king who entrusts his three dull sons to a learned man to enlighten their minds within six months. He recites to them his especially composed tales divided into five tantras? or systems, on how to deal with people in daily life.

Over time, travellers took these stories far and wide to Persia and Arabia, through Greece to Europe. Translated into more than 50 languages of the world, the stories of the Panchatantra continue to have universal appeal today.