Panchatantra

Panchatantra and its descendants:


 * http://members.iquest.net/~vepachedu/chinnaya.html
 * http://www.tribuneindia.com/99oct10/sunday/head4.htm

I like this explanation: "I have edited Sir Thomas North's English version of an Italian adaptation of a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of an Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version of the Indian original." Joseph Jacobs, in Indian Fairy Tales (1890).

Phillip Brown has quite a fairytale collection there.