The Blue Jackal is a story known throughout the
Indian sub-continent
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.
Earliest reference
The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in ''
Panchatantra
The ''Panchatantra'' (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, sa, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. '', a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see
anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.
Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...
,
Talking animals in fiction
Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphic, possessing human-like qualities (such as bipedal walkin ...
). In each of the stories every animal has a
"personality" and each story ends in a moral.
The story
The story of the Blue Jackal known through
oral transmission Oral transmission, literally meaning "passing by mouth", may refer to:
*Oral tradition of stories, texts, music, laws and other cultural elements
**Oral gospel traditions, referring specifically to the Christian Gospels
*Pathogen transmission
In ...
doesn't vary much from one part of
India
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to another. Although the creature is known variously as ''Chandru'', ''Neelaakanth'' or ''Neela Gidhar'' (literally, ''Blue Jackal'').
The most common version
[Panchatantra The Story of The Blue Jackal](_blank)
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See also
*Fables
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...
*Indian literature
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The earliest works of Indian literature were o ...
*''Panchatantra
The ''Panchatantra'' (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, sa, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. ''
References
External links
* https://moralkahani.in/top-10-hindi-stories-in-short-moral-stories-hindi (''The Blue Jackal'' story in Hindi)
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Traditional stories
Oral tradition
Sanskrit literature
Indian literature
Indian folklore
Fictional jackals
Indian fairy tales