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- Like the Ramayana
and the Bhagavad-Gita,
the kavya masterpieces
emphasize the importance of dharma, or religious duty (see
pages 890–953,1010–1028 in volume A).
- The Pañcatantra is the source of well-known
tale collections, including The Thousand and
One Nights (see pages 1566–1618
in volume B), The Decameron (see
pages 1963–1991 in volume B) and The Canterbury
Tales (see pages 2045–2119
in volume B).
- Like the Buddhist Jataka
tales, each tale in the Pañcatantra opens
with a narrator reciting an epigrammatic verse that arouses
the listener's curiosity by summarizing the moral of
the story and the subject matter (see
pages 1002–1010 in volume A).
- The satirical portrayal of corrupt holy men in the Kathasaritsagara
might be early precursors to the satirization of monks and
nuns in The Canterbury Tales (see
pages 2045–2119 in volume B).
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