Vishnu Sarma was the author of the anthropomorphic political treatise called Panchatantra.
He lived in Benares at around 200 BC. He was a scholar in Sanskrit and the official Guru of the then princes of Kasi. He started writing down Panchatantra to teach political science to his royal young disciples. The Panchatantra is the oldest collection of Indian fables surviving today.
Other related archives200 BC, Benares, Guru, Kasi, Panchatantra, fables
Varanasi (वाराणसी) (also known as Benares, Banaras, Benaras, Kashi, and Kasi) is a Hindu holy city on the banks of the river Ganga (Ganges) in the modern north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi has a unique culture, quite different from other places in the region. This culture has developed through thousands of years during which it has been one of the major cultural centres of northern India. The whole Varanasi culture revolves around the river Ganga, which is the heart and soul ...
Varanasi is the site of the holy shrine of Lord Kashi Vishwanath (a form of Lord Shiva) which is one of the revered 12 Jyotirlingas of the Lord Shiva. Kashi Vishwanath Temple which in the present shape was built way back in 1780 by Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar of Indore, along with the fact that it stands on the banks of the Ganga, has rendered Varanasi a place of great religious importance to the Hindus. Varanasi is considered one of the most sacred places of pilgrim ...
The Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra, Sanskrit पञ्चतन्त्र "Five Chapters" , Kelileh va Demneh or Kalilag and Damnag in Persian) is a collection of Sanskrit fables in prose and verse. The original version, now lost, was written around 200 BC and is attributed to Vishnu Sarma.
The work illustrates the central priniciples of Raja neeti (political science) through animal stories. The five principles illustrated are:
Mitra Bhedha ( ...
The following are the universities in Varanasi:
Banaras Hindu University - Founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, a renowned educationist, it is one of the most prestigious in the country and an international center for Indological study.
Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth University which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi and founded by Shiva Prasad Gupta
Tibetan University at Sarnath
Sir Sampoornanand Sanskrit University, in which most of ...
In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fable" comes from Latin fabula and shares a root with faber, "maker, artificer." Thus, though a fable may be conversational in tone, the understanding from the outset is that it is an invention, a fiction. A fable may be set in verse, though it is usually prose. In its pejorative sense, a fable is a ...
