on Guru, Kṛṣṇa, Nāma, Bhakti and Bhakta. by Harikṛṣṇa. Alwar 1564. Extr. 383.

mantra. Adyar II. p. 233a.

jy. Mithilā.

from Garuḍapurāṇa. IM. 7131.

mantra. Mysore I. p. 576.

lex. composed in 1644 A. D. by Veṇīdatta, son of Jagajjīvana and grandson of
Nīlakaṇṭha.

Bikaner 5464. 5465 (inc.). Gough p. 33 (an.). L. 1436. Nasik II. 646. RASB. VI. 4709A. Wai D. II.
9484.

-- C. Ākāśa. Bikaner 5464.

IM. 10927.

Dacca 1578. I.

from Nigamakalpadruma. Dacca 636. U. 1.

tantra. Dacca 227. B. Varendra 756.

tantra. Mithilā. [Page014-a]

Bud. by Amoghavajra. Cordier II. p. 174.

by Dattātreya. Burnell 201a. TD. 23219.

jy. Adyar PL. p. 164.

Bud. hymn in Rāgalalitā. Nepal II. p. 238 (in a collection).

Bud. hymn in Rāgalalitā. Nepal II. p. 238 (in a collection).

-- from Paramārthānāmasaṅgīti. AS. p. 249 (2 mss.).

Bud. AMG. II. p. 343. AR. XX. p. 546. Cordier III. pp. 97-98. Kanjur Kyoto 445. Lalou p. 74.

Ptd. French transl. AMG. V. 470.

Bud. by Advayavajra. Cordier II. p. 216.

Ptd. GOS. 41.

Bud. Cordier II. p. 12.

kāvya. NP. IX. 14 (by Dharma Paṇḍita).

C. 100-500 A. D. collection of popular fables, stories etc. interspersed with moral and
educative verses; in 5 sections; original text not avaliable; earliest available text ascribed to
Viṣṇuśarman or Somaśarman, patronised by king Amaraśakti of Mahilāropya; first rendered into
Pahlavi (not extant); then into Persian and Arabic under the name Kalileh vah Damne; translated into
Greek by Symeon (end of 11th Cent.); into Turkish in 16th Cent. by Ali-binSāliḥ; abridged versions
are found in Bṛhatkathāmañjarī and Kathāsaritsāgara.

The well known recensions and versions of Pañcatantra are: [Page014-b]

(1) Pañcākhyāna of Pūrṇabhadra.

(2) Pañcākhyānoddhāra.

(3) Hitopadeśa (recast) of Nārāyaṇa.

(4) Tantrākhyāyikā (Kashmirian).

(5) Tantropākhyāna of Vasubhāga. For this see IHQ. X. pp. 104-11.

Many versions in South Indian languages are also available.

See G. T. Artola, Pañcatantra Mss. from S. I., Adyar Libr. Bulletin XXXI. pp. 185-262;
also L. Alsdorf, Pantschatantra, Bergen, 1952; R. Gelb, Zur Frage nach der Urfassung des
Pañcatantra, Wiesbaden, 1968.

Translated into most of the languages of the world. See Wint. HIL. III. i. pp. 329-46. For
details see Intro. to Hertel's edn. of Pañcatantra, HOS. 11. 12 and 14. For a table on
transls. into diff. languages see Tawney & Penzer, Ocean of Stories X. pp. 232-42.

For a list of mss. of the following versions see also Intro. to Hertel's edn. HOS. 12.

1. Tantropākhyāna of Vasubhāga pp. 36-41.

2. Pañcatantra of Viṣṇuśarman pp. 8-30.

3. Hitopaḍeśa of Nārāyaṇa pp. 30-35.

-- identity of version not known.

America 2324-26. Āmpallūr 18. Ānandāśrama 5074. BISM. Nasik Patawardhan 352. 355. BORI. 253
of 1880-81. Bühler 541. Cabaton I. 773. Gough pp. 52. 141. H. 111. IM. 6009 (fr.). 9565 (inc.).
Kaḍayanallūr 285. [Page015-a] 286. Kiṭaṅṅaśśeri Mana 79. Mad. Uni. 455. 478 (with Tel.
meaning). Nasik II. 314 (Mitrabheda). 361 (Mitrasamprāpti). Nepal I. p. 9 (inc.). Paliyam 165 (a).
165 (b) (inc.). 952. 960. Rep. Raj. & C. I. p. 55. Skt. Coll. Ben. 1910-11, p. 7 (no. 2015).
Sri. Dev. 263 (Mitrabheda). TA. 32 (a) (inc.). 1399. 1556. 3272 (b).

-- by Viṣṇuśarman.

Adyar D. V. 910. 911. 912-13 (inc.). 914. 915 (inc.). 916. 917 (ºsaṅkṣepa). 1018. XIII.
1275-78. Alwar 931. AS. pp. 99. 100. B. II. 190. Baroda II. 608. 801 (Pañcopākhyāna). 1369. 4118.
4119. 5868. 7011 (saṅkṣepa). 7211 (inc.). 7883 (I). 10791. BBRAS. 1259-61. 1262-63 (inc.). BC.
211. Bd. 417-19. Ben. 33. Bhr. 147. Bikaner 3758-64. BISM. thi. 677. vi. 97/1
(inc.). Bomb. Uni. 2288 (fr.) (Pañcopākhyāna). BORI. 17 of 1868-69. 44 of 1869-70. 54 and 55 of
1871-72. 144 of 1875-76. 189. 190 of 1879-80. 251 and 252 of 1880-81. 68 of 1881-82. 105 of
Ā882-83. 147 of 1882-83. 75. 637 (inc.). of 1883-84. 313 of 1884-86. 719 of 1886-92. 417 and 419 of
1887-91. 355 and 356 of 1892-95. 456 and 457 (i) of 1895-1902. 457 and 458 of 1899-1915. BORI. D.
XIII. iii. 1252-54. 1256. 1257 (inc.). 1258. 1260-61. 1263-66. 1267-73 (inc.). 1274-75. 1276-77
(inc.). 1279. BP. pp. 262. 302. Bu7hler 541. Burnell 165a. GD. 1310-15. 1316-17 (inc.). 1318
(ºsaṅgraha). Go7ttingen 169 (a) & (b) (inc.). Gough pp. 65 (inc.). 87 (2 mss.; 1 inc.). Gov.
Or. Libr. Madras 46. Granthappura p. 69, nos. 1310-15. 1316-17 (inc.). Gu. 4. Hz. 376. 1219. IM.
5072 (inc.). IO. 4085-87. 7305-06. 7314 (with Marathi version). JBhP. I. 1511. Jhalrapatan
[Page015-b] p. 154. K. 78. Kāṭm. 6. Kh. 65. Lz. 403-04 (inc.). MD. 12184-85. 12186-87 (inc.).
12188. 12189-90 (inc.). 12191-93. 12194-98 (with meaning in Tamil etc.). 15620. 16190. 19086. MT.
951. 1979 (b). 2657. 4616. 7587. 12642. 12651 (inc.). 13608 (inc.). 13635 (inc.). Mysore I. pp. 248.
292 (6 mss.). NS. Press 74. Oppert I. 145. 2138. 2365. 5855. 6031. 7331. II. 1768. 2254. 2728. 3186.
Oxf. 157a. Oxf. II. 1272 (with Marathi transl.). 1273 (with Gujarati transl.). 1274 (1) (Books 1-3).
1274 (2) (Books 4-5). P. 10. 20. Paris (Gr. 18. Tel. 38). Peters. I. p. 116 (no. 105) (1st tantra).
III. p. 395 (no. 313). IV. p. 27 (no. 719). V. p. 255 (no. 355). Pheh. 6. PUL. II. p. 274 (inc.).
Radh. 21. RASB. VII. 5376 (inc.). 5377. Report X. Rgb. 371. Rice 232. Serampore G. 2. 57. Skt. Coll.
Ben. 1918-30, p. 76 (no. 629) (inc.). (no. 630) (inc.). SSPC. II. C. 2. Stein 81 (inc.).
Sūcīpattra 10. TA. 92 (a). 1734 (1). 1824. 2210 (inc.). 2241 (inc.). Taylor I. pp. 89. 345-47. II.
pp. 58 (2 mss.; 1 inc.). 370. TCD. 1466A (inc.). TD. 4162-64. 4165 (inc.). 4166 (wrongly attributed
to Kṣemendra). 4167-75 (inc.). 4176 (Northern recension). 4177 (inc.). Trav. Uni. C. 2085 (inc.).
2783A. 4149C. 4208 (inc.). 4467 (inc.). 5350. 8627F. 13822 (inc.). 14057A. 14818. 15425. 15863.
Trippūṇittura I. 284. 285A. 779 (2). Udaipur I. B. 124, 1. 198, 28 (p. 74, nos. 879, 1745 of Ptd.
Cat.). Ujjain I. p. 32. Vienna 17. Viśvabhāratī 1078. 1371. 2037. 3024. Wai D. II. 9059-62.
9063-65 (inc.). Weber 557.

Ptd. (1) ed. by J. G. L. Kosegarten. Bonn, 1848-59. (2) Bombay Skt. Ser. I-V. ed. by F.
Kielhorn. Bombay, [Page016-a] 1868-96. (3) ed. by Pandit Jivanada Vidyasagar. Calcutta, 1899 (6th
edn.). (4) N. S. Press. Bombay, 1902. (5) HOS. 14. Cambridge: Massachusetts. 1915. (6)
Pañcatantra reconstructed. ed. by F. Edgerton American Ori. Ser. 2 & 3. New Haven, 1924.
(7) Haridas Skt. Ser. 13. Benares, 1930. (8) with Skt. C. of Narayana Rama Acarya, N. S.
Press. Bombay. 9th edn. 1950. (9) with C. Chātrabodhinī. Moradabad, 1924. (10) C. Saralārtha
Prakāśinī by Raghunandana Sastrin. Lahore, 1926. (11) C. by Jivananda Vidyasagara. Calcutta,
1914.

For other edns., transl. etc. see IO. Ptd. Bks. 1938, pp. 1857-63.

Transls.: Foreign languages:

Arabic:

by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa C. 750 A. D. “Kalīla wa-Dimna” ed. by Cheikho.

(1) Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, 1816.

(2) Beirut, 1923.

Czech:

Bajky Bidpajovy (Fables of Bidpai). Prague, 1894.

English:

(1) by Thomas North. The Morall Philosophic of Doni. London. 1570. 1601. (2) by Arthur W. Ryder.
Chicago, 1926. (3) by A. S. P. Ayyar. D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Bombay, 1931.

French:

by M. L. ‘Abbe’ J. A. Dubois. Paris, 1872.

German:

(1) A. von Pforr. ‘Das Buch der Beispiele der alten Weisen’ end of [Page016-b] 15th Cent.
Stuttgart, 1860. (2) R. Schmidt. Leipzig, 1901. (3) by Hertel. Leipzig: Berlin, 1909 (with
text).

Hebrew:

by Rabbi Joel. beg. of 12th Cent. ed. by J. Derenbourg with French transl. 1881.

Italian:

‘Discorsi degli animali ragionanti tra loro’ by Agnolo Firenzuola. 1548 A. D.; by Doni. 1552 A.
D.

(Old) Javanese (Kawi) by Dr. C. Hooykaas A. C. Nix & Co. Bandoeng, 1931.

Latin: by Johannes von Capua, C. 1263-78 A. D.

Liber Keliloe et Dimnoe, Directorium. with critical and comparative notes. Hervieux, Paris,
1899.

Pahlavi:

by Burzoe “Karataka and Damanaka”. C. 550 A. D.

Persian:

by Husain ibn ‘Alial-Waiz (1470-1505 A. D.) ‘Anwari Suhaili’.

Eng. transl. pub. Hertford, 1851.

Russian:

of Mongolian text. by B. Ya. Vladimirtsov. Russian Acadamy of Sciences, Petrograd,
1921.

Syriac:

by Bud. C. 570 A. D. Kalilag wa Dimnag. ed. by Schulthess. Berlin, 1911 (with German
transl.).

Transls. and adaptations: Indian:

Kannada: intermixture of Viṣṇuśarman's and Vasubhāga's versions. [Page017-a]

(1) by Durgasim3ha, composed in 1031 A. D. Arrah I. p. 18. Śravanabelgola 363 (b).

See G. Artola. op. cit. pp. 42-44.

Ptd. Karṇāṭakakāvyamañjari, Mysore, 1898.

(2) by Kṛṣṇarāja III. 1794-1868. A. D. based on Viṣṇuśarman's.

See Artola. op. cit. pp. 72-73.

(3) ed. by John Garrett. Mysore Govt. Press. Bangalore, 1865.

Malayalam:

(1) in verse. by Rāmapāṇivāda (Kuñcan Nambiār).

See G. Artola. op. cit. pp. 51. 53-58.

(2) in verse. in Kilippāṭṭu metre. by Raghava Pisharoti of Kallekkulaṅgara. (C. A. D.
1725-95).

See ibid. pp. 59-60.

(3) in prose. by Sumangala. National Book Society. Kottayam, 1978.

Marathi:

Times Press. Bombay, 1849.

Tamil: prose version:

(1) of Vasubhāga's Tantropākhyāna titled Pañcatantravacana. See G. Artola. op. cit.
pp. 45-50.

(2) in verse by Vīramārttāṇḍadevar. See G. Artola. op. cit. pp. 60-65.

(3) by Tāṇḍavarāya Mudaliar (in prose).

Ptd. Srimagal Co. Madras.

Telugu:

(1) Pañcatantramu of Nārāyaṇakavi written in 1460 A. D. See G. Artola. op. cit. pp.
52-53. 65-68. [Page017-b]

(2) Pañcatantrī of Bhānukavi, C. 1509-30 A. D. See ibid. p. 68.

(3) Pañcatantramu of Veṅkaṭanāthakavi (C. 1500-70 A. D.).

See ibid. pp. 69-70.

Tantrākhyāna.

Ptd. JRAS. XX. pp. 465-501.

See also Tantrākhyānakathā, NCC. VIII. p. 102b.

Tantrākhyāyikā.

(1) ed. by Johannes Hertel. Leipzig, 1904. (2) with German transl. Leipzig & Berlin,
1909.

For mss. and other edns. see NCC. VIII. p. 103a.

-- Pañcākhyāna version. composed in 1199 A. D. by Pūrṇabhadra.

BORI. 46 of 1869-70. 371 of 1884-87. 418 of 1887-91. 355 of 1892-95. 458 of 1899-1915. BORI. D.
XIII. iii. 1255. 1259. 1260. 1262. 1278. Br. Mus. 277. IO. 4084. 7307-12. Udaipur II. 201, 2.

Ptd. ed. by (1) J. Hertel. Cambridge, Mass. Harward University, 1908. HOS. 11 (2) J.
Hertel with critical intro. and list of variants. Harward University, 1912. HOS. 12. (3)
Richard Schmidt. 320. Lotus Verlag. Leipzig, 1901. (4) Pañcatantra. Transl. from Skt.
Pañcākhyānaka by Arthur W. Ryder. Chicago Press, 1925.

See Pañcatantra by Viṣṇuśarman, IO. Ptd. Bks. 1938, pp. 1857-58.

German transl. by R. Schmidt. Leipzig, 1901, 2nd edition 1909.

-- Pañcākhyānavārttika. Gujarathi.

BORI. 741 of 1875-76. D. p. 116.

Ptd. (1) J. Hertel. Leipzig, 1922 (old Gujarati). (2) with German [Page018-a]

transl. by J. Hertel. Indische Erza7hler 6. Leipzig, 1923.

Radh. 21.

Jodhpur 639. 640 (diff.). 641. 642.

GD. 1318. Granthappura p. 69, no. 1318 (inc.). Mysore I. p. 292.

Cf. Pañcatantraślokasaṅgraha.

kāvya. Ānandāśrama 3765.