English: The novelist Doris Lessing notes in her introduction to Ramsay Wood's 1980 "retelling" of the first two of the five Panchatantra books, that "... it is safe to say that most people in the West these days will not have heard of it, while they will certainly at the very least have heard of the Upanishads and the Vedas.
Telugu: నవలారచయిత్రి డోరిస్ లెస్సింగ్ ఐదు పంచతంత్ర పుస్తకాల్లో మొదటి రెండు పుస్తకాల రాంసే వుడ్ యొక్క 1980 "మళ్లీ చెప్పిన కథ"కు ఆమె పరిచయంలో ఇలా పేర్కొంది "… it is safe to say that most people in the West these days will not have heard of it, while they will certainly at the very least have heard of the Upanishads and the Vedas.