A History of Sanskrit Literature c24.s2.6

c24.s2.6

Other renderings from the Arabic were less fertile; the Hebrew version of Jacob ben Eleazer in the thirteenth century is only in part preserved, the old Spanish version (*c.* 1251) and John of Capua's work afforded material to Raimundus de Biterris who prepared his *Liber de Dina et Kalila* for Johanna of Navarre. The Italian Baldo in the early twelfth century used some version for his *Novus Esopus*. La Fontaine in the second edition of his *Fables* in 1678 expressly states that the greater part of his new matter is derived from the Indian sage Pilpay, in whose name we may recognize the Sanskrit Vidyāpati, lord of learning.