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Soma — Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara ("Ocean of Streams of Story") of 1070 is a massive collection of stories and legends, to which a version of the Panchatantra contributes roughly half of Book 10. The numbers given are those of N. M. Penzer , which situate the Panchatantra passages within the Kathasaritsagara as a whole.
The prelude narrates the story of how Vishnu Sharma supposedly created the Panchatantra. There was a king called Sudarshan [ citation needed ] who ruled a kingdom, whose capital was a city called Mahilaropya (महिलारोप्य), whose location on the current map of India is unknown. [ 9 ]
And most of the stories contained in it have "gone down" into the folklore of the story-loving Hindus, whence they reappear in the collections of oral tales gathered by modern students of folk-stories. The earliest known translation, into a non-Indian language, is in Middle Persian (Pahlavi, 550 CE) by Burzoe.
The Story of the Blue Jackal is one story in the Panchatantra One evening when it was dark, a hungry jackal went in search of food in a large village close to his home in the jungle . The local dogs didn't like Jackals and chased him away so that they could make their owners proud by killing a beastly jackal.
Pinglak is a lion in the story. [1] Sanjeewak was a bull who, because of his incapabilities and illness was discarded by his master and was left alone in a jungle, where he sat on the bank of Yamuna river and grew stronger.
Raghuvir Sahay (1929–1990) was a versatile Hindi poet, translator, short-story writer and journalist. Nirmal Verma (1929–2005), one of the founders of the Nai Kahani literary movement. Kamleshwar (1932–2007), author of Kitne Pakistan. Dushyant Kumar (1933–1975), prominent Hindi poet and composer of ghazals.
Vishnu Prabhakar (21 June 1912 – 11 April 2009) was a Hindi writer. He had several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism, nationalism and messages of social upliftment.
Sara Rai's father, the literary critic and painter Sripat Rai (1916–1994), was the founding editor of Kahani (1937–39 and 1953–79), one of the leading literary journals of the Nayi Kahani [2] Movement. Her mother, Zahra Rai (1917–1993), also wrote and published short stories in Hindi.