The Panchatantra is (to quote Wikipedia) "an ancient Indian work of political philosophy, in the form of a collection of interrelated animal fables”. There’s
nothing on Gutenberg
but I did find this good quality transcription on Wikisource:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Panchatantra_(Purnabhadra%27s_Recension_of_1199_CE)
(see also
archive.org
scans:
https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryder
). While this translation was published in the US in 1925 the wikisource link claims no copyright was renewed on the text. Sure enough, a quick search on the Stanford copyright renewal database doesn’t throw anything up.
Is this something Gutenberg would consider adding? If I wanted to verify lapse of copyright is there a more formal process I could undertake?
Thanks!
-Robin