The Panchatantra - Indian animal fables

The stories of the Panchatantra are one of the ancient stories of the Indian subcontinent, as the moral values are given in each and every story by a way of animal fables.

The Panchatantra - Indian animal fables

The stories of the Panchatantra are one of the ancient stories of the Indian subcontinent, as the moral values are given in each and every story by a way of animal fables. All the stories of Panchatantra are surrounded near the situation based problems of the life of wild animals and after the end, you realized that the story had moral meaning, and which can be easily applicable in human life. 

The animals talking around the stories are indicating the nature of human beings and the responses given by other wild animals indicate the responses of the surrounding peoples of society. The Stories of the Panchatantra are not only restricted to the children's but they are for all human beings and they explained and reveal the nature and truth of our society. 

 The traces of the Panchtantra is found in 200 BCE in the form of oral tradition, thereafter it was widely spread throughout the Indian subcontinent, then after it spread around the world and having more than 200 versions in 50 plus languages. 

The Panchtantra is found in the five parts which explained as follows-  Mitra-bheda, Mitra Labh, Kakolukiyam, Labdhapranasam and Aparisitakarakam

The above parts are available and still, it is one of the best animal fables in the country.