Talk:Panchatantra

message: From Dutch wikipedia. Relief from Java, Indonesia. deeptrivia (talk) 14:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing it out (three years ago); I have moved it from Dutch Wikipedia to Commons. Will shortly stick it into this article. Shreevatsa (talk) 19:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: The article on Aesop's Fables says,
The collection under the name of Aesop's Fables evolved from the late Greek version of Babrius, who turned them into choliambic verses, at an uncertain time between 3rd century BC and 3rd century AD. In about 100 BC, Indian philosopher Syntipas translated Babrius into Syriac, from where Andreopulos translated back to Greek, since original Greek scripts had all been lost. Aesop's fables and the Panchatantra share about a dozen tales, leading to discussions whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other way, or if the influences were mutual. 
This seems to contradict the glaringly incomplete section in this article which says there are exactly two stories shared (which two is not said) and that India is seen as the source of the fables.
I'm inclined to trust the "Aesop's Fables" version more.
Can any expert on this subject clear this up?  Perhaps the section should be removed for its seeming incompleteness if not for inaccuracy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pediddle (talk • contribs) 16:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing/Contradictory Section: "Two Links with Aesop" 

message: May I request editors of this wikipage to go through a proper review process. For me, it looks better than B. Thanks. GDibyendu (talk) 09:47, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a confused article. I'd rate it C. The lead needs to be cleaned up to clarify that there the Panchatantra is a Sanskrit, Indian work upon which later works are based. The footnotes are way too heavy with prose. II | (t - c) 09:05, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: TODO

message: abdulazim gharib mentions in his introduction that 9 years before the death of anushirvan (i.e. 570) one christian iranian with name "پرودیوت" (peridut bud?) translated the book into syriac language from pahlavi. this has two centuries difference from what the article says. ref: abdulkarim gharib's copy of Nasrollah munshi text, tehran 2005 page 6--خنیاگر (talk) 04:19, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  some notes 

message: Many of the footnotes refer to other footnotes by number, e.g. "See Note 21 below", and so on. This is not stable, because as footnotes as inserted and deleted the numbers will change -- is it possible to come up with some other way of referring to them? (It might even be a good idea to move all that prose out of the footnotes and into the article itself.) Shreevatsa (talk) 19:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-references to footnotes 

message: One of the footnotes had, within  tags, the following quote:
This is certainly a fascinating quote, and I thank whoever found it, but it's not a reference for anything in the article. Some of the other footnotes are also of this nature... I feel guilty about removing them, but they're clearly not supposed to be there :) What should be done? Shreevatsa (talk) 07:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Lessing quote 

message: Seriously? Is THAT even remotely encyclopedic to include?!
In any case, I will remove it and provide a brief description of each chapter in the book.
Cheers!
Λuα (Operibus anteire) 15:34, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, good work! There are several more such essay-ish sentences in the article, albeit in bigger words. One day, someone will have to be bold and clean it up to the dry style expected on Wikipedia. Shreevatsa (talk) 20:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "So much for naughty jackals!" 

message: This has got to be one of the worst written articles in Wikipedia. Long winding sentences, informal terms (goody-goody, etc.) and no coherent structure. Plus the article is highly opinionated. Who is this Professor Edgerton, who is never referenced, but whose opinion about Panchatantra is deemed so important as to make its way into an encyclopedic article?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.192.227.33 (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Though someone has obviously taken pains with the article, I agree with you — it might be great for some other medium, but reads too much like an essay for Wikipedia. But please be bold and fix it. Shreevatsa (talk) 17:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Thanks for your comment; it finally broke my reluctance and induced me to work on the article. Relative to the old version, after a few edits, I think I have now mostly removed the opinionated bits (or found attribution for them), and improved the structure. More improvements, of course, are always welcome. Shreevatsa (talk) 02:16, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Such a badly written article

message: The caption of this image (the one with the fire) says its syriac, however the writing near the illustration are undoubtly arabic and NOT syriac (which uses totally different alphabet). This should be changed. --Histolo2 (talk) 20:09, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, thanks for noticing it. I just used the file information from , whose title says it's a Syrian painting from around 1310. (Perhaps it's a Syrian painting with Arabic lettering? No idea.) It would be best to fix the description on Commons too if it's wrong, but feel free to change or remove the mention in the caption meantime. Regards, Shreevatsa (talk) 20:40, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Syriac" is a language, while "Syrian" means "from Syria". As far as I can tell, "Syrischer" means "Syrian". From this I assume that this is a picture with Arabic writing originating in Syria, which is perfectly sensible. Based on this, I'm going to alter the captions of this and other pics with "Syrischer" in their tags. Phil wink (talk) 00:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  File:Syrischer_Maler_um_1310_001.jpg 

message: The article contained a word "Alghlim" that doesn't seem to much exist on the internet outside of mirrors of this page. For several months it was tagged with a request for its meaning, but since none has been forthcoming, I've just removed the word. Shreevatsa (talk) 18:06, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Alghlim" 

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replies: text: Checked that the archive link is fine. Shreevatsa (talk) 21:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Just a character from the story, that too with an odd spelling. Shreevatsa (talk) 04:02, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Pinglak]] 

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thread_title:  Not 'Indian' 

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