What is Hitopadesha?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Hitopadesha manuscript pages Nepalese manuscript 1800 CE.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Nepalese [[manuscript]] of the ''Hitopadesha'', c.1800]] '''''Hitopadesa''''' is a collection of short [[story|stories]]. It was originally written in [[Sanskrit]]. It is very similar to another Sanskrit book named ''[[Panchatantra]]''. It contains [[fable]]s with both animal and human characters. The book was written many centuries before. Its stories are now well known in different parts of the world. The work has been translated into most of the major [[language]]s of the world. An [[English language|English]] [[translation]], rendered by Sir Edwin Arnold [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/hitopadesha_arnold/], then principal of Puna College, [[Pune]], [[India]], was published in London in [[1861]]. {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Short stories]] [[Category:Sanskrit]] [[Category:12th-century books]] [[Category:Indian literature]]