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पञ्चतन्त्रम्

Panchatantra

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Panchatantra

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Panchatantra

Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 2703/2703; HI 2703/2703; GU 2703/2703; chapters 6. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02345–5.1
Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02345

Sanskrit · 5.p02345

पञ्चमं तन्त्रम्

English · Meaning

The fifth treatise.

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02346

Sanskrit · 5.p02346

अपरीक्षित-कारकम्

English · Meaning

The unexamined deed

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02347

Sanskrit · 5.p02347

क्षपणक-कथा

English · Meaning

The tale of the ascetic

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.p02348

Sanskrit · 5.p02348

अथेदम् आरभ्यतेऽपरीक्षित-कारकं नाम पञ्चमं तन्त्रम् । तस्यायम् आदिमः श्लोकः-

English · Meaning

Now the fifth book, called The Unexamined Deed, is begun. This is its opening verse:

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Aparīkṣita-kāraka5.1

Sanskrit · 5.1

कुदृष्टं कुपरिज्ञातं कुश्रुतं कुपरीक्षितम् । तन् नरेण न कर्तव्यं नापितेनात्र यत् कृतम् ॥

English · Meaning

What was wrongly seen, wrongly understood, wrongly heard, or wrongly examined should not be done by a person—whatever was done here by the barber.

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Contents

6 chapters
  1. Kathā-mukha
  2. Mitra-bheda
  3. Mitra-samprāpti
  4. Kākolūkīya
  5. Labdha-praṇāśa
  6. Aparīkṣita-kāraka

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Panchatantra

Panchatantra

Panchatantra · Digital Sanskrit transcription; Suno Katha free Library release

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Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 2703/2703; HI 2703/2703; GU 2703/2703; chapters 6. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.

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