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Bidpai

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Bidpai or Bidpay (both: bĭd`pī), supposed name of the author of the fables of the Panchatantra Panchatantra (pŭn'chətŭn`trə)
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. The name first appears in an Arabic version of these fables—hence they are called the fables of Bidpai. The word is probably Sanskrit, meaning "wise man" or "court scholar."


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The Moral Philosophy of Doni, popularly known as The Fables of Bidpai.
There are five German folktales (Grimm, 1977); five Irish tales; two French tales (both attributed to Perrault, but one is actually by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont); two "Slavic" tales; two Indian stories (from the Bidpai and Mahabharata); two episodes from the Aeneid; and one Czech, one Japanese, and one Swedish tale.
 
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