Panchatantra Stories

Panchatantra Stories - Panchatantra, a monument of Sanskrit narrative prose. There was a to III-IV centuries BC. E., It has a long-standing folk origins; while the earliest "Panchatantra" extant Sanskrit manuscripts belong to the XI century. Authorship, history of the book, the degree of its "folkloric" and "literary treatment" is still not resolved scientific problem. Tradition calls the author of a Brahmin Vishnusharmana supposedly lived in the V-VI centuries, which at the request of Raja teach him the wise management of the state and has made this collection of allegorical instructive stories.