The document summarizes an ancient Indian collection of fables called the Panchatantra. It discusses how the Panchatantra uses animal fables and frame stories to teach moral lessons. It then provides an example fable about mice who help free elephants that had previously destroyed the mice's village, showing the moral of making friends even with larger/powerful animals.

2. THE MICE THAT SET THE ELEPHNATS FREE

3. PANCHATHANTRA
 The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian inter-related collection of animal fables in verse and
prose, in a frame story format.
 The original Sanskrit work, which some scholars believe was composed around the 3rd century
BCE, is attributed to Vishnu Sharma.
 It is based on older oral traditions, including "animal fables that are as old as we are able to
imagine".
 It is "certainly the most frequently translated literary product of India", and these stories
are among the most widely known in the world.

4. FABLES
• Brief stories in prose or poetry that teaches a moral or a practice
lesson
• The characters are often animals

5. THE MICE THAT SET THE ELEPHANTS FREE

6. THE INNER STORY
The mice were living peacefully in a village.

7. Group of Elephants trample through mice community causing
destruction.

8. The mice held a convention to solve the problem.

9. Mice meet with elephant king and suggest they become friends (with mutual benefits). Elephants
agree.

10. Years passed…. Elephants become hunted and trapped.

11. Elephants send for mice and mice help free the
elephants.

12. Reviewing question
Write the moral of the story.