The Panchatantra tales are an one of India's most influential contributions to world literature and another example of anthropomorphism, the Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra or Pañca-tantra) consists of five books of animal fables and magic tales (some 87 stories in all) that were compiled, in their current form, between the third and fifth centuries AD. It is believed that even then the stories were already ancient. The tales' self-proclaimed purpose is to educate the sons of royalty.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/panchatantra.html
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