Hitopadesa, a New Literal Translation From the Sanskrit Text, of Prof. F. Johnson

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The five translations thus availed of, were made in different provinces, at different times, by different men, probably, nay almost certainly, in profound ignorance of each other's performances. There fore, whenever I have found five native scholars, unknown to each other, unite in ascribing a given sense to a given passage, I have felt constrained to yield some deference to their Opinion.