Panchatantra or Pancha Tantra

中文翻譯為《五卷書》--是古印度著名的寓言故事集。用梵文寫成，因有5捲而得名。現在流行有各種本子，最早的可能產生於公元前1世紀。流行較廣的本子為12世紀一耆那教和尚所編訂。 .

《五卷書》Pancatantra

The Panchatantra - The Brahmin's Tale is from the oldest extant collection of fables in Sanskrit literature. Dating from the 4th century AD,

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Baker&Taylor

Table of Contents

Preamble  xi
Book One: How Friends are Lost
The Lion and the Bull                            3  (2)
The Heedless Monkey                              5  (1)
The Intrusive Ass                                6  (6)
The Jackal and the Drum                          12 (4)
Fine-taste and the Sweeper                       16 (3)
The Foolish Brahmin, the Jackal and the Rams     19 (3)
The Weaver's Cheating Wife                       22 (3)
The Crow and the Serpent                         25 (1)
The Heron and the Crab                           26 (4)
The Lion and the Quick-witted Hare               30 (2)
The Weaver and the Princess                      32 (9)
The Mosquito and the Bug                         41 (3)
The Blue Jackal                                  44 (4)
The Camel's Fatal Friendship                     48 (5)
The Lion and the Carpenter                       53 (2)
The Ocean and the Sparrow                        55 (1)
The Talkative Turtle                             55 (2)
The Three Fish                                   57 (3)
The Sparrow's Revenge                            60 (5)
The Parrot's Unwanted Advice                     65 (1)
Right-mind and Dark-mind                         66 (2)
The Shortsighted Heron                           68 (1)
The Merchant's Balance                           69 (2)
The Two Parrots                                  71 (2)
The Noble Robber                                 73 (3)
The Monkey and the King                          76 (4)
Book Two: How Friends Are Won
The Crow and his Companions                      80 (5)
The Mole's Misfortunes                           85 (1)
Sandili and the Seeds                            86 (3)
The Carpenter's Destiny                          89 (2)
Virile and the Jackal                            91 (2)
The Elephants Saved by Mice                      93 (3)
The Deer and the Prince                          96 (6)
Book Three: Live Long
Crows and Owls                                   102(1)
The 'Donkey Leopard'                             103(1)
The Birds Elect a King                           104(1)
The Hare and the Elephant King                   105(5)
The Cat's Judgement                              110(2)
The Brahmin and his Goat                         112(5)
The Serpent's Gold                               117(1)
The Hunter and the Dove                          118(3)
The Old Man and the Thief                        121(1)
The Brahmin, the Demon, and the Robber           122(2)
King Sivi and the Pigeon                         124(2)
The Carpenter's Unfaithful Wife                  126(3)
The Mouse Maiden's Marriage                      129(3)
The Bird that Dropped Golden Turds               132(1)
The Cave that Roared                             133(3)
The Frogs that Rode on a Snake                   136(3)
The Brahmin's Unfaithful Wife                    139(6)
Book Four: Loss of Gains
The Monkey who Befriended a Crocodile            145(4)
The Foolish Frog King                            149(3)
The Lion and the Brainless Ass                   152(2)
The 'Hero' Potter                                154(2)
The Jackal who was Raised by a Lioness           156(1)
The Ungrateful Wife                              157(3)
A Tale of Two Husbands                           160(2)
The Thief and the Farmer's Wife                  162(3)
The Diplomatic Jackal                            165(2)
The Dog who Traveled Abroad                      167(3)
Book Five: Rash Acts
The Barber Who Murdered the Monks                170(3)
The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose              173(1)
Castles in the Sky                               173(4)
The Greedy Treasure Hunter                       177(3)
The Scholars Who Revived a Lion                  180(2)
The Four Learned Idiots                          182(1)
The Singing Donkey                               183(1)
The Slow-witted Weaver                           184(3)
The Monkey s Revenge                             187(6)
The Gullible Demon                               193(1)
The Three-Breasted Princess                      194(1)
The Inquisitive Brahmin                          195(4)
Author's Note                                      199

Panchatantra : 'Five Wise Lessons' : a Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables-US-
ISBN:9781887089456 (Paper cover book)
Dharma, Krishna /Publisher:Torchlight Pub Published 2004/03
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Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Collector's Edition
Walton Ford, Bill Buford
Hardcover + Box, 37.5 x 50 cm,
354 pages, £ 750.00
ISBN 978-3-8228-4386-4


Walton's World: The beautifully savage beasts and birds of Walton Ford

Walton Ford's life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they're not. Something strange and usually sinister is happening in each of Ford's works, whether it's a turkey crushing a small parrot with its claw, a collection of monkeys wreaking havoc on a formally set dinner table, or a buffalo surrounded by a pack of bloodied white wolves… in the middle of a proper French garden. Executed with the deft skill of a natural-history artist, Ford's works vibrate with an intensity of uncanny familiarity; they are both reassuring in style and disturbing in content. With titles like Au Revoir Zaire, Dirty Dick Burton's Aide de Camp, and Space Monkey, his paintings not only blur the lines between human and animal history, but also open the doors to a world of real-life fantasy, dreams, and nightmares.

For this hand-crafted, limited-edition volume, Ford's paintings have been color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, providing unequalled intensity and color range. The book includes 12 horizontal and 4 vertical foldouts, along with dozens of details, which present the work at a scale that practically allows the viewer to enter the ancient and peopled landscapes, feel the brush of a bird's feathers against flesh, and experience the hot breath of a wild cat about to go for the jugular.

Collected together for the first ever in-depth exploration of Walton Ford's œuvre, Ford's bestiary takes its name from one of the texts he frequently cites in his work: The Pancha Tantra, the ancient Indian book of animal folktales collected from the 3rd to 5th centuries B.C. that is considered to be the precursor to Aesop's Fables. Stories derived from many of the texts that served as the germinal seed for these paintings fill the book's appendix; and an original essay by New Yorker staff writer Bill Buford substantiates the notion that this contemporary artist is more than just one to watch, but one who will stand the test of time. Available in an Art and a Collector's Edition, Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra is limited to a total of 1,600 copies, signed by the artist and presented in a custom clamshell box.

Collector's Edition (No. 101-1,600)

• Limited to 1,500 individually numbered copies, each signed by Walton Ford
• Printed on archival-quality paper
• Finished in book cloth with a leather spine and corners with gold embossing
• Packaged in a clamshell box covered in Luxor book cloth

Both editions feature a complete professional biography as well as an appendix with substantial excerpts from the textual sources for the paintings, from Vietnamese folktales and the letters of Benjamin Franklin to the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography.