Sir Edwin Arnold: The Book of Good Counsels – From the Sanskrit of the “Hitopadesa”

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As the term suggests, The Hitopadesha is a collection of tales that gives good counsel.N Hitopadesa was presumably written by Narayan Pandit and is an independent treatment of the Vishnu Sarman’s Panchatantra (3rd century BC) which it resembles in form. In Hitopadesha, Vishnu Sarman is dsweepingted as a Sage who undertakes to give good counsel to the sons of Sudarsana, the king of Pataliputra, through stories within stories involving talking animals. The dating of Hitopadesha is problematic as no other work by Narayan Pandit is known. The earliest manuscript of Hitopadesha dates from 1373; it could be of East Indian origin during the Pala Empire (8th-12th centuries).N This boo The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel).

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