Jump to content

Index:The Fables of Bidpai (Panchatantra).djvu

Wikisource Page Game (step-by-step pagelist builder)
Open in Book2Scroll
Open file in BookReader
Purge file
From Wikisource
TitleThe Fables of Bidpai
AuthorVishnu Sharma
TranslatorThomas North
EditorJoseph Jacobs
Year1888
PublisherDavid Nutt
LocationLondon
Sourcedjvu
ProgressTo be proofread
TransclusionIndex not transcluded or unreviewed
VolumesOriginal by Vishnu Sharma in 3rd century BCE.

Translated from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian) by w:Borzūya as Karīrak ud Damanak (570 CE)
This was translated into Syriac by a Nestorian Christian called Bud as Kalilag and Damnag.
Translated from Syriac into Arabic by w:Ibn al-Muqaffa' as Kalīla wa Dimna (750 CE) (tr directly from Pahlavi per alt view)
Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Rabbi Joel in the 12th century.
Translated from Hebrew into Latin by w:John of Capua as Directorium Humanae Vitae (1480 CE)
Translated from Latin into Italian by w:it:Anton Francesco Doni (1552)
Translated from Italian into Elizabethan English by Thomas North (1570)

Republished after editing by Joseph Jacobs (1888)