Panchatantra, (Sanskrit: “Five Treatises” or “Five Chapters”) also

spelled Pancatantra, collection of Indian animal fables, which has had

extensive circulation both in the country of its origin and throughout the world.  
In theory, the Panchatantra is intended as a textbook of niti (“policy,”
especially for kings and statesmen); the aphorisms tend to glorify shrewdness
and cleverness rather than altruism. The original text is a mixture of Sanskrit
prose and stanzas of verse, with the stories contained within one of the five
frame stories. 
The Panchatantra is a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy
metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices
A lot of us have memories of these stories and the characters some of the more
popular ones being the monkey and the crocodile, the elephant and the mice and
so on. But do these stories hold any significance in our behaviour and lives?
Our group will dive into this question and try to answer this question. However,
to truly understand the impact of these stories, one must understand the history
and intent behind this and this will be explained by my team mate, Aditya .