num_pages: 576
description: The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop's fables.Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
language: English
title: Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom
titlecomplete: Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom (Panchatantra)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Clay Sanskrit