Talk:The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Phil wink in topic Not sure about Panchatantra

Not sure about Panchatantra edit

The article currently states "Some variants are very old, going back at least to the Panchatantra or Fables of Bidpai..." I've slapped a {{citation needed}} on this because:

  1. Quickly paging through both the Edgerton and Purnabhadra versions of Panchatantra, I failed to find an analogue (of course, this could be my own failure).
  2. The story (here about a wolf) does appear in Jacobs' edition of North's translation of Doni, but Jacobs notes: "This form original to the Italian of Doni," which suggests that the story was added in the 1500's, therefore not a part of any early version of the Panchatantra and seemingly neither a part of the Fables of Bidpai/Pilpay (though I'm less sure about those versions).

Cheers. Phil wink (talk) 15:14, 27 August 2015 (UTC)Reply