GK
INDIAS HERITAGE
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folktales
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vyasa
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Panchatantra is a collection of folktales and fables that is thought to have been authored in Sanskrit more than 2500 years ago by the illustrious Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma.
Detailed explanation-2: -1. The Monkey and the Crocodile. The most popular and most widely narrated of the Panchatantra stories. The monkey and crocodile become friends, but the crocodile’s wicked wife has other intentions.
Detailed explanation-3: -He wanted to teach governing skills, morals and principles to his 3 sons for which he hired Indian author and scholar, Vishnu Sharma. He invented an innovative style to teach them governing skills and good values by writing a collection of stories in 5 volumes, known as Panchtantra.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of India’s most influential contributions to world literature, the Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra or Pañca-tantra) consists of five books of animal fables and magic tales (some 87 stories in all) that were compiled, in their current form, between the third and fifth centuries AD.