BOOKS
Vishnu-sharman / Visnusarman.
The five discourses on worldly wisdom.
Translated by Patrick Olivelle.
New York, New York University Press JJC Foundation, 2006.
€ 22.50
Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 562pp., 11.5x17cm., in very good condition (dustjacket with slight traces of use). Bilingual edition (Sanskrit-Eng.). ISBN: 9780814762080. "Clay Sanskrit Library".
Itemnummer 2859 
The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop?s fables.