
thumb|upright=0.85|Nepalese manuscript of the Hitopadesha, c.1800
thumb|upright=0.85|Nepalese manuscript of the Hitopadesha, c.1800
Hitopadesha (Sanskrit: हितोपदेशः, IAST: Hitopadeśa, "Beneficial Advice") is an Indian text in the Sanskrit language consisting of fables with both animal and human characters. It incorporates maxims, worldly wisdom and advice on political affairs in simple, elegant language, and the work has been widely translated.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).