Vishnu Sarma is the author of an anthropomorphic political treatise called
Panchatantra. He lived in
Benares at around
200 BC. He was a scholar in Sankrit and the official
Guru of the then princes of
Kasi. He started writing down
Panchatantra to teach poltical science to his young royal disciples. The
Panchatantra is the oldest collection of Indian fables surving today.