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The Panchatantra is an ancient Sanskrit collection of stories, probably first composed around 300 CE (give or take a century or two), [1] though some of its component stories may be much older. The original text is not extant, but the work has been widely revised and translated such that there exist "over 200 versions in more than 50 languages."
This are a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, or stories about him, which have been in many Wikipedia articles.Many hundreds of others have been collected his creation of fables over the centuries, as described on the Aesopica website.
The story of the pear tree, best known to English-speaking readers from The Canterbury Tales, also originates from Persia in the Bahar-Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. The story could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in book VI of the Masnavi by Rumi.
William Sydney Porter, pen name O. Henry (1862–1910) Erin Pringle (born 1981) Annie Proulx (born 1935) Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) Indra Bahadur Rai (1927–2018) James Robison (born 1946) José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971) Emma May Alexander Reinertsen (1853–1920) Susanne Ringell (born 1955) Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) Philip ...
Story of Arjuna, of royal line of Kuru Kingdom: Sanskrit: Lord Ganesha while Veda Vyasa narrated it. 400 BCE - 400 CE [4] Purva Mimamsa Sutras: Sanskrit: Rishi Jaimini: 300 BCE - 200 BCE Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's advice to Arjuna on duty. Sanskrit: Veda Vyasa: 200 BCE - 200 CE [4] Not a separate work. Part of Mahabharata. Panchatantra ...
Epic poem – a lengthy story of heroic exploits in the form of a poem. Essay - a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point; Fable – a didactic story, often using animal characters who behave like people. Fantasy – a story about characters that may not be realistic and about events that could not really happen.
A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. [1] The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. [2] A moral is a lesson in a story or real life. [3]
The story was given a literary treatment, with the name The three little Crones, each with Something big, where the lazy spinster is a princess, who is trapped in a tower by her own mother in order that she should learn how to spin flax.