Panchatantra

The name Panchatantra means Five sections. And each section of this describes about some short moral stories linking with animals, which will be taught to the prince's of the King named Amarashakti by a sage named Vishnu Sharma. He, therefore, wrote a collection of stories under the following five volumes, and so it was named as Panchatantra (‘pancha’ – five and ‘tantra’ – systems):

 

The five sections include:

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• Mitra labha (Gaining friends) – Collection of stories related to winning friends.

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• Mitra bheda (Losing friends) – Collection of stories related to losing friends.

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• Aparïksitakárakam (Acting without thinking) – Collection of stories about how imprudence leads to losing what is important.

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• Labdhapranásam (Loss of gains) – Collection of stories that mention how to come out of difficult situations without losing things.

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• Kákolùkïyam (Crows and owls) – Collection of stories about rules and strategies of war and peace