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  Pronounced As: punchtuntr [Sanskrit,=five treatises],
  anonymous collection of animal fables in Sanskrit                [Image]
  literature, probably compiled before A.D. 500 (see
  Bidpai). The work, derived from Buddhistic sources, was          [Related Information]
  intended as a manual for the instruction of sons of the
  royalty. The fables are in prose, with interspersions of
  aphoristic verse. The stories in the Panchatantra appear
  to have entered European literature circuitously through
  an Arabic version (c.A.D. 750) of the translation into           [Encarta.com link]
  Syriac of the Pahlavi (literary Persian) translation
  (c.A.D. 550) from the original. A variant spelling is
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