Panchatantra Tantrakhyayika

Author(s): Johannes Hertel
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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PREFATORY AND RELATED MATTER Preface: by the Editor of this Series The titles Panchatantra and Tantrākhyāyika . Importance of the Panchatantra in the history of literature Its place of origin, author, date, and purpose . . . Earliest and latest time-limits of the work, 300 B.C. and 570 A.D. Hertel's essays and books on the Panchatantra . . . . The missing Introduction and Notes to the present volume . Acknowledgments : to the Printing-house of G. Kreysing of Leipzig To the Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen.
Typographical devices etc. explained Head-lines, page-numbers, line-numbers . Indication of emboxments by vertical wavy lines Vertical straight black-faced lines . . Device for citing whole paragraphs of the frame-stories Citation of tales and stanzas . . . . .
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SANSKRIT TEXT OF THE TANTRĀKHYĀYIKA OR The Panchatantra in its oldest extant form, the Kashmirian
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Introduction or Kathāmukha King Amarasakti and his three simple sons The king entrusts the princes to the wise teacher Vishnuśarman The octogenarian master composes for them Five Tantras or Panchatantra
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Book I or first Tantra: The estranging of friends Frame-story: The lion (Pingalaka) and the bull (Saṁjivaka) and
The two jackals, Karataka and Damanaka . . Tale i: Ape and wedge . . . Frame-story continued. . . Tale ii: Jackal and drum. Frame-story continued . . Tale ili a: Monk and swindler.
Tale iii b: Rams and jackal. Tale iii a concluded. . Tale iiie: Cuckold weaver . Frame-story continued. .