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The Blue Jackal is a story known throughout the
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Earliest reference

The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in ''
Panchatantra The ''Panchatantra'' (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, sa, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.
'', a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see
anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics t ...
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Talking animals in fiction Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphic, possessing human-like qualities (such as bipedal walkin ...
). 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
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doesn't vary much from one part of
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to another. Although the creature is known variously as ''Chandru'', ''Neelaakanth'' or ''Neela Gidhar'' (literally, ''Blue Jackal''). The most common versionPanchatantra The Story of The Blue Jackal
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See also

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Fables Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...
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Indian literature Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognised languages. The earliest works of Indian literature were o ...
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Panchatantra The ''Panchatantra'' (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, sa, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.
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* https://moralkahani.in/top-10-hindi-stories-in-short-moral-stories-hindi (''The Blue Jackal'' story in Hindi) {{DEFAULTSORT:Blue Jackal Traditional stories Oral tradition Sanskrit literature Indian literature Indian folklore Fictional jackals Indian fairy tales