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                                 Education

Anwar-e-Suhaili: A text book at Haileybury College for British officials serving the East India Company 19th century

 

Tamil Panchatantra: Used at East India Colleges in India 19th century

Panchatantra in veracular schools in Tamil Nadu

 

 

 Translations were extant in Persian and Mughal courts

 

 

 

            In modern nationalist movement

 

Tamil Panchatantra became part of "New Vernacular" movement

 

Dhangopal Mukherjee

                            Circuits of the Panchatantra

 The Panchatantra and its many translations ciculated in many cultures and languages and was put to a variety of uses including education, entertainment and political satire

At Court

                                           Sanskrit

 

Persian

 

Arabic

 

Hebrew

 

Italian

 

English

 

Image Mel Kandel. Ancient Looms

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Raaga:The specialized sense of 'loveliness, beauty,' especially of voice or song, emerges in Classical Sanskrit, used by Kalidasa and in the Panchatantra.(Wiki)

Rajib Karmakar is a well-known Raaga music fusion artist. His music forms a melodius accompaniment to this website exploring the interaction between linguistic, cultural amd material cultures, made available by the digital medium, where the meaning of the Panchatantra may be truly experienced

 

 

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