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Narayan Pandit

Narayan Pandit

Indian writer

This article is about writer of the book Hitopadesh. For Indian mathematician Narayana Pandit, see Narayana Pandit.

Narayan Pandit (Hindi: नारायण पण्डित), or Narayana, was the Brāhmaṇa author of the Sanskrit treatise called Hitopadesha — a work based primarily on the Panchatantra, one of the oldest collection of stories, mainly animal fables, in the world. Narayana's dates are not known, but scholarly consensus places the composition of the Hitopadesha at around 800 to 950 CE.[1] The last lines of the book indicate the name of the author as Narayan Pandit:

नारायणेन प्रचरतु रचितः संग्रहोsयं कथानाम्

Narayan Pandit was the royal poet of Dhawalchandra, the king of Bengal.[2] The beginning and ending shlokas of the book indicate the deep faith of Narayan Pandit in lord Shiva.

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Haksar 1998, p. x.
  2. [2]
    Information about Narayan Pandit Archived 26 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in Hindi)

References

  • Haksar, A. N. D. (translator) (1998), Nārāyaṇa: The Hitopadeśa, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-140-45522-9 {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help)


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