lyo Analytical Account of the Pancha Tavtra. 



This apologue, therefore, is a very old acquaintance, the moral is the same : 

 a sensible foe is preferable to a foolish friend.* The death of Sanjivaka, 

 the grief of the Lion, and the councils of the Jackalls, close this, the first and 

 longest division of the Pancha Tantra, in the same manner as the corre- 

 sponding sections of the Katila Damana, Ililopades'a, and Vriltal Kalhc'i. This 

 first section, according to the original enumeration, comprehends thirty-one 

 stories, f 



SECTION SECOND. 



THE ACQUISITION OF FRIENDS. 



The Mitra Prdpli,% or acquisition of friends, is the same as the Milra 

 Ldbha of the Ilitupadesa, with tiie difierence, only, of transposition. It 

 is the same also as the seventh chapter of the Kalila Damana .- the sixth 

 being a probable addition of the translator, who, in his idea of poetical 

 justice, has put Damana upon his trial, and condemned him to death ; 

 occurrences not hinted at in the Hindu work. Neither have we the few 

 narratives that occur in his section ; nor are the moral remarks, or tiie 

 judicial proceedings, of a Hindu complexion. 



The Alitra Priipti opens like the Mitra Ldbha. with the description of the 

 scene of action, placed by both in the South, with this variety, that the 

 one states it to lie on the banks of the Gocldvari, and the other, that it was 

 not very far from the city Pramaduropyam. The Crow, or Raven, Laghu- 

 patanaka, opens the business in all the copies. The fowler is very minutely 

 described in the Pancha lantra, as an inhabitant "of the city, living by 

 bird-catching, of an uncouth figure, with splay feet, and clumsy hands; 

 round as a ball ; sturdy, though advanced in years ; clad in red garments, 

 with his hair bound into a knot on his head, carrying a net and staff', and 

 followed by dogs : in short, he looked like Destiny with the fatal noose ; 



* The form familiar to us is the story of the Gardener, the Bear, and the Fly, in which it 

 occurs in the Anvara Soheili, and Ayar Danish. 



f In Mr. Sotheby's copy, only twenty-six — H.T.C. 

 It is also read Samprdpti, which has the same import. 



