Buddha as Originator of the Embedded Story Genre

This is a paper primarily based in the Buddha’s complex Discourse, Aggañña-sutta (Digha Nikaya 27) from a literary perspective, initially explored in relation to the Buddhist Jātaka ‘Birth stories’. Looked at in relation to the classical beast fable Pañcatantra in Sanskrit literature, what is seen is an embedded story genre. Exploring further, Buddha comes to be shown as the ORIGINATOR of the embedded structure, the Pañcatantra of two centuries or so after the Buddha, as a culmination of the structure in Sanskrit literature.