The Blue Jackal

The Blue Jackal is a fictional character in a moral story of the same name known throughout the Indian sub-continent.

Earliest reference

The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in Panchatantra, a collection of five Vedic moral stories which depict animals in human situations. "Panchatantra" is not alone in this Aesop's Fables, "Perek Shira" [ [ http://www.aish.com/spirituality/odysseys/My_Rats_Tale.asp] ] and The Jungle Book humanize animals. In each of the stories every animal has a "personality" and each story ends in a moral.

The story

The story of the Blue Jackal known through oral transmission doesn't vary very much from one part of India to another. Although the creature is know variously as "Chadru", "Neelaakanth" or "Neela Gidhar" (literally, "Blue Jackal").

The commonest version [ [http://panchatantra.org/the-story-of-the-blue-jackal.html Panchatantra The Story of The Blue Jackal ] ] is told like this:

ee also

*Fables
*Indian Literature
*Panchatantra

References