sentences:  In his 'Afterword' to (citing the latest Kindle 2010 and 2011 subtitles) "Fables of Friendship and Betrayal (Vol 1)" and to "Fables of Conflict and Intrigue (Vol 2)" Wood suggests that these strikingly distinct literary compilations of ancient fables, although highly revered classics in each target language, are among the world's most durable examples of cross-cultural migration, adaptive morphology and secular survival – as they have been widely and continuously shared and modified for over two thousand years, downstream from a legendary, long-lost, Sanskrit original manuscript known as the "Ur-Panchantantra".In her introduction to all seven English editions of "Kalila and Dimna (Vol 1)".Doris Lessing supports Wood's remix contention (and does so again in her monograph, "Problems, Myths and Stories").