Panchatantra, Hitopadesha and Jataka Katha.

#DharmaQuiz Session 330: 24-Apr-2015

#DharmaQuiz 2036: Panchatantra is ancient world's most famous set of moral fables (Niti). It's author Vishnu Sharma lived in BCE or CE? Ans: BCE - 3rd century BCE.

#DharmaQuiz 2037: Jataka Katha is an ancient Indian moral story collection. How many stories of wisdom does this collection have? Ans: 550 jatakas or tripitikas

#DharmaQuiz 2038: About 850 years ago, a famous scholar framed Hitopadesha Sanskrit fables. Name him. Ans: Narayana Bhatta.

#DharmaQuiz 2039: Two thirds of Panchatantra is 2 chapters involving friends.
Mitra Bheda and Mitra Samprapti. Which one is longer? Ans: Mitra Bheda. 45% of Panchatantra is just this chapter. 

#DharmaQuiz 2040: Panchatantra is the most translated old Indian literature.
Approximately to how many languages? Ans: 50 languages, with 3/4th of them being outside India.

Scores for session 330:
Sorry, did not score.

Universities with Sanskrit Motto

DharmaQuiz Session 298: 16-Sep-2014

#DharmaQuiz 1876: Which university has this motto?
"Yukti hina vicharetu,
dharmahnih prajayate"
(Judgment devoid of logic
destroys dharma)

Ans: West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. Also National Law School Bangalore (not a university).

#DharmaQuiz 1877: Krishna says in Gita, “Yogah karmasu kaushalam” (Yoga is excellence at work).
Which Indian university has this as motto? Ans: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), also referred to as NIT Nagpur. Also, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur, Gujarat university.

#DharmaQuiz 1878: कर्मणि व्यज्यते प्रज्ञा / Karmaṇi Vyajyate Prajna - from the Panchatantra is the motto of a state  university. Which one?
Ans: University of Kerala (UoK).

For DQ 1878. Image from Wiki

#DharmaQuiz 1879: "Buddhih sarvatra bhrajate" = Wisdom shines forth everywhere, is the motto of a university outside India. Which one?  Ans: University of Colombo.

#DharmaQuiz 1880: Which North Eastern University has the Taittiriya Upanishad's motto -> "vijnanam yajnam tanute" ? Ans: Tezpur University, Asom.

DQ 1880. Image from Wiki

Scores for Session 298:

1. @mdbiyani : 5
2. @man8shree : 5

1. @prashanthpraj : 1
2. @SnookyBangalore : 1
3. @davcolor : 1
4. @jadithyareddy : 1
5. @mast_manav : 1
6. ‏@vkdwivedi21 : 1
7. @KSVSUBRAMANIAN : 1

DharmaQuiz Session 282: 17-June-2014

Theme: Panchatantra

#DharmaQuiz 1796: Great Panchatantra stories are attributed to the ancient Indian scholar Vishnu
Sharma. In which century BCE did he live? Ans: 3rd century BCE in Northern India.
Read more: http://hinduism.about.com/od/panchatantra/fl/The-Panchatantra.htm

#DharmaQuiz 1797: In 1429 CE, Panchatantra was translated from Sanskrit as 'Kelileh o Demneh'.
To which language was that translation? Ans: Farsi or Persian. The exact name of that language could
have been Pahlavi at the time of translation.

#DharmaQuiz 1798: Panchatantra, the collection of the most famous stories in the world, is termed Niti Shastra. What does Niti mean? Ans: Niti = Good conduct or moral conduct.

#DharmaQuiz 1799: There are in total 87 immortal stories in Pancha Tantra.
How many books are they organized into? Ans: Five books.

{Final, Open till 10.30PM} #DharmaQuiz 1800: Panchatantra is translated into 60 languages. Ibn al
Muqaffa translated it into which language? Ans: Arbi or Arabic.

Read More: http://www.arabacademy.com/arabic-blog/arabic-books/kalila-wa-dimna/

Answers to session 282:

Didn't collect. Sorry.. Worldcup :)

DharmaQuiz Session 176: 20-Nov-2012

Theme: Panchatantra

1. Panchatantra, composed at least 4000 years ago by Vishnu Sharma, is a part of which shastra? a) Dharma b) Niti c) Sankhya. #DharmaQuiz 1236 Ans: b) Niti Shastra or the treatise of the wise.
2. Panchatantra shares many stories in common with Jataka tales of which religion? d) Sikhism. e) Jainism. f) Buddhism. #DharmaQuiz 1237. Ans: f) Buddhism.
3. The oldest available Sanskrit recension of Panchatantra, the "Tantrakhyayika" was found where? g)Asom. h) Kashmir i) Bihar. #DharmaQuiz 1238. Ans: h) Kashmir.
4. "Kalila wa Dimna", considered the first masterpiece of Arabic prose, was a translation of Pancha tantra. Who translated? #DharmaQuiz 1239. Ans: Ibn al-Muqaffa.
5. Panchatantra's translation, Das Der Buch Beyspiele, was the earliest German print after Bible. When? #DharmaQuiz 1240. Ans: 1483 CE. One of the earliest ones after Bible to be printed in Germany.

Top scorers:

1. @geophyraj : 5
2. @intodust_in : 5
3. @ChandanYogendra : 5
4. @DevNakshi : 5
5. @anandt_05 : 5
6. @iSaakshi : 5
7. @surnell : 5
8. @Ramgopaljgd : 5
9. @iSumitRk : 5
10. @dolby_mehul : 5
11. @man8shree : 5
12. @sharathinindia : 5

Congrats to:

@vinodvyas220 : 4

@cubicle_warrier : 3
@babu2034 : 3
@hd223 : 3
@sweathot : 3

@raopm9 : 2
@shivsankar : 2
@lshyam : 2
@Can2Ind : 2
@Satya046 : 2
@TheArvindDhar : 2
@Ganja_Baba : 2
@sharan_vj : 2

@Marut_ : 1
@ahmednkhan : 1
@lodyaashi : 1
@upretivineet : 1

It's nice to see so many attempt this particular quiz. Many did not make to this list, but my thanks to them. Pancha Tantra stories were the original Indian colonization of the then known world. Every major civilization got a translation over 1000s of years.