PanchatantraAuthor: G L Chandirmani Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Rupa Published Year: 1991 Pages: 270 The oldest surviving collection of India fables,the Panchatantra,was probably written around 200 B. C. by the great Hindu scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. The Panchatantra is a book of niti,the wise conduct of life,written in the form a chain of simple stories. Each of these stories has a moral and philosophical theme aiming to guide the reader on