Importance Of Friendship In The Panchatantra

The Panchatantra shows that friendship is one of the most valuable things in the world. It shows both the benefits and dangers of friendship while at the same time showing how easy it is to lose a friend. The ideals of friendship, the things that give it value area often hard to describe. It could be based off of what someone gains for instance counsel or favors. The benefits of friendship transcends favors and gives individuals the opportunity to show their inner self without fear of judgment. The Panchatantra shows that friendship can even forge bonds between individuals whom they would never naturally associate with. Sadly some friendships do not last or never form in light many different facts that range from appearances, the desires

Friendship comes from many human sympathies, intelligent conversation and shared goals in The Panchatantra. One of the many things that makes an friendship so valuable is that it allows people to offer sound advice to others more easily to help them through their lives or even favors if needed or requested. AN example being that of the story “How the Crow-Hen killed the Black Snake” (PP 54) in which an dreaded black snake slaughters the children of two crows. The Crow 's wife does not know what they could do but the husband reassures her saying “My dear, even if I have not the power to hurt him myself, I do have friends who are learned who have mastered the works on ethics. I will go to them for shrewd advice of such nature that the villain will soon meet his doom.”(PP 55) Sure enough the Crow’s friend gave him sound and intelligent wisdom that allowed the crow to overcome an natural enemy that

Outside forces influencing a friendship can lead them to ruin. This is shown in "The Loss of Gains" where the monkey and the crocodile at first have a kind friendship but because of the crocodile 's wife 's jealousy and fears she asks the crocodile to use his friendship with the monkey to steal the monkey 's heart. The crocodile tries to deceive the monkey and almost succeeds but ultimately tells the monkey the truth and loses him as an friend forever. The crocodiles ' lies were hard on his conscious but he was still a false friend. In "Passion and the Owl" (PP 91) Death itself befriends an swan in the personage of an Owl and leads the swan to it 's demise on the basis of their friendship. “I am returning to my home in Lotus Grove. If you value our friendship and feel affection in your heart for me, please do not fail to pay me a visit as my guest.”. A true friend would not use their friendship to control the actions of someone they cared deeply about especially not to lead them to their death. This is a case where friendship bloomed only to hurt someone else. Even though it seems that friendship can be fine without any negative feelings that 's also just not true. In book one the loss of friends, rusty and lively have an beautiful friendship that has allowed the two to connect with each other on a