hitopadeṣa | हितोपदेष | hitopadeSa
hitopadeṣa | हितोपदेष | m. friendly advice, salutary instruction, MBh.; Pañcat. &c.
N. of a popular collection of fables intermixed with didactic sentences and moral precepts (compiled by Nārāyaṇa, and supposed to be narrated by a Brahman named Viṣṇu-śarman to some young princes; it is chiefly founded on the Pañca-tantra q.v.)
N. of two works on medicine.
N. of a popular collection of fables intermixed with didactic sentences and moral precepts (compiled by Nārāyaṇa, and supposed to be narrated by a Brahman named Viṣṇu-śarman to some young princes; it is chiefly founded on the Pañca-tantra q.v.)
N. of two works on medicine.