Question

A collection of tales that was popular from second to sixth century ----------​

Answer 1

Panchatantra is a collection of folktales and fables that were believed to have been originally written in Sanskrit by the great Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma more than 2500 years ago. It offers insight into human behaviour though the characters are entirely from the animal kingdom.

Answer 2

Answer:

A collection of tales that was popular from the second to sixth century is Panchatantra.

Explanation:

• The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of related animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged in a frame story. The surviving work is dated to around 200 BC, but the fables are probably much older.
• The author of the text is unknown, but it has been attributed in some reviews to Vishnu Sharma and in others to Vasubhaga, both of which may be fictional pseudonyms.
• It is probably a Hindu text and based on older oral traditions with "animal fables as old as we can imagine".
• The Panchatantra is a series of interwoven fables, many of which are animal metaphors humanized with human virtues and vices. His narration exemplifies the central Hindu principles for the benefit of three ignorant princes.
• In addition to a short introduction, it consists of five parts. Each part contains a main story, called a frame story, which in turn contains multiple embedded stories as one character tells a story to another.

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