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"One Vishnusharman, shrewdly
gleaning
All Worldly wisdom's inner
meaning
these five Books the charm
compresses
Of all such books the world
possesses
And this is how it happened.

In the southern country is a city called Maiden's Delight. There lived a King named Immortal Power. This king had three sons …and they were supreme block-heads."

The Panchatantra, one of the world's great collections of tales was gathered together in India in the Vale of Kashmir, over 2,000 years ago. Told, so the story goes, to a king's three

(Continued on back flap)