![]() The adulterous wife is tricked by her lover The foolish frog invites a snake to his well On losing what you have gained: The friendship between a crocodile and a monkey The frogs that went for a ride on the back of a snake The sage who changed his pet dog into different animals The marriage of a mouse that turned into a girl How the unfaithful wife tricked her foolish husband How Shishupala died in the hands of Krishna Partridge and hare take their case to the cat On war and peace: The enmity between crows and owls How the deer Chitranga got caught in a trap The jackal waits for the bull's testicles to fall The weaver's options: to be generous or stingy How the greedy jackal died eating a bowstring How a dead Brahmin became alive again by his pet crab How pigeons escaped the net by pretending to be dead How mouse cut the net that imprisoned the pigeons On securing allies: The crow, rat, tortoise, and deer that became friends ![]() Noble robber saves the lives of his victimsįaithful but foolish monkey kills the king The fate of three fish: Far-sighted, Quick-witted, and Inevitable The lady who didn't listen to her daughter-in-law The Brahmin Devadatta, the story teller, and the ogre How the louse got killed trying to be nice to a bug The monkey who died by giving shelter to a hunter How the battling rams killed the greedy jackal On causing dissension among allies: The jackals Karataka and Damanaka (Of the versions tabulated below, only Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara lacks this 'master frame' - an unsurprising omission, since the Panchatantra section is placed within the 'master frame' of the Kathasaritsagara itself.) Story In addition to the stories listed below, many versions begin with a prelude in which a king bewails the stupidity of his sons, and the wise Vishnu Sharma (the Panchatantra's reputed author) bets that he can teach them statecraft in a mere 6 months the tales constitute his lesson. Narayana split, combined, and reordered his source stories more extensively than most other revisers of the Panchatantra, so while cells in other columns generally have a one-to-one relationship, this does not hold true for the Hitopadesha. However, in this case the differences are comparatively trivial. The Hitopadesha itself exists in several versions, without an extant original.
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