This work is Edwin Arnold's 1861 English translation of the Hitopadeśa, a collection of Sanskrit fables and moral tales. It is a significant early English rendition of a classic Indian text, introducing its wisdom literature to a wider Western audience.
Sources for Edwin Arnold (trans.) — The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadeśa
Edwin Arnold (trans.) — The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadeśa in Fables
Held in the Fables chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aesop (V. S. Vernon Jones, trans.; illus. Arthur Rackham) — Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912)
- Martha Warren Beckwith — Jamaica Anansi Stories (1924)
- Jean de La Fontaine (Walter Thornbury, trans.; illus. Gustave Doré) — The Fables of La Fontaine (1882)
- Ellen C. Babbitt — Jataka Tales: Animal Stories Retold from the Original Pali (1912)
- Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Oliver Wardrop, trans.) — The Book of Wisdom and Lies (1894)
- Henry Morley (ed.) — The History of Reynard the Fox (1889)
- Ivan Krylov (W. R. S. Ralston, trans.) — Krilof and His Fables (1869)