Panchatantra Stories — All 78, in Hindi and English

The Panchatantra is the oldest and most travelled collection of animal fables in the world. A king in the south of India had three sons who would not study, and an eighty-year-old teacher named Vishnu Sharma promised to make them wise in six months using nothing but stories. What he wrote became five books — on losing friends, winning friends, crows and owls, losing what you have gained, and acting without thinking — and every story in them hangs on a single verse of practical wisdom. These pages follow Pandit Jwala Prasad Misra's Sanskrit-and-Hindi edition of 1910, story by story, keeping the verse each fable turns on. Read them in order, or start anywhere.