The story evolved from ancient south Indian city named "Mahilaropyam" ruled by the king Amarashakti. Amarashakti was a great ruler and a legend of all art forms, but his three sons named Vasushakti, Ugrashakti and Anekashakti were naughty and lazy.Amarashakti was troubling with this three sons because after his life time any one of them should rule the kingdom. So he asked his ministers to take a wise decision for this troublesome. Sumathi, one among the ministers of his kingdom advise the king to take his three sons to the great scholar named Vishnu Sharma. Scholar was invited to the court and the king offered him land for making his three sons wise and courage. Vishnu Sharma accepted the king's request of making princes wise, but rejected the award. He told that, " he will make the three princes wise with in six months but he won't sell his knowledge for a piece of land". The king, Amarashakti was very much pleased by hearing his words. Scholar taught the princes lessons by making stories based on five treatises. He named the treaties or tantras as ' mitrabedham', 'mitrasamprapthi', 'kakolukeeyam', 'labhapranasham' and 'apareekshithakarakam'( all names are based on Sanskrit language). As Vishnu Sharma told, by the end of sixth month the princes gained the concepts of all kinds of knowledge. From here onwards, these five treatises became famous in the name of Panchatantra.