sentences:  We thus only can enjoy and study the many recompiled derivative works and variants of the missing original "Panchatantra", of which the few surviving medieval Arabic "Kalila wa Dimna" manuscripts by Ibn al-Muqaffa (750 CE) remain as the keynote pivots between ancient India and modern Europe.Ibn al-Muqaffa is also personally responsible for the profuse flowering of Islamic manuscript illustration that uniquely stems from "Kalila wa Dimna", for his Preface to it clearly states that two of the book's four intentions (specifically, the second and the third) are "to show the images ("khayalat") of the animals in varieties of paints and colours ("asbagh", "alwan") so as to delight the hearts of princes, increase their pleasure and also the degree of care which they would bestow on the work.Thirdly, it was intended that the book should be such that both kings and common folk should not cease to acquire it; that it might be repeatedly copied and recreated in the course of time thus giving work to the painter ("musawwir") and the copyist ("nasikh")".