Category: Children’s

Once there lived a Brahmin, named Drona, in a certain town. The Brahmin left all the luxuries of life. He did not wear good clothes, did not eat delicious food or did not practise any lavish means. He followed rigorous practices of worship even during cold, hot and rainy seasons. He did not take care of his health so due to this he became very thin and weak. His hair and nails grew very long due to not maintaining them.

One of his followers offered him a pair of calves. He took care of the calves very much and fed them properly, so in due course of time they grew very fat. He loved them very much.

One day, a robber noticed the calves of the Brahmin and thought, “I shall steal these fat calves from him.” so he made a plan to steal them.

At night, as the robber returned with a rope to steal them he met a devil in his way with a very horrific appearance. As the thief saw him he got frightened and asked him, “Who are you?

 The devil replied him, “I am a devil. I always speak the truth and hate the liars. Introduce yourself!"

The robber frightened with him and confessed, “I am a thief. Now I am on my way to steal two calves of a devoted Brahmin.” The devil impressed by him and then they both became friends. As they both were honest to each other, they planned that the devil eat the Brahmin, and the robber steal the calves. They started to reach the Brahmin home.

As they reached the Brahmin’s home they entered into the home and hid themselves. The Brahmin was at home and went to sleep. The devil and the robber waited for the Brahmin to fall asleep, so they got the opportunity to complete their works.

As soon as the Brahmin fell asleep, they demon came out of hiding and reached the Brahmin to eat him. The robber began to think if the Brahmin woke up when the devil went to eat him, his work will not complete. So he asked the devil to wait till he tied the calves with the rope and left from here.

But the devil did not agree with him and said, “If the calves start making sound during your stealing them, the Brahmin may wake up and escape from him and his purpose will not fulfil.” They both then started a heating argument, and due to this the Brahmin woke up.

When they both saw that the Brahmin woke up, the robber started complaining to the Brahmin that the demon was planning of eating him up. On this, the devil also complained to the Brahmin that the robber was planning to steal the calves from him.

After hearing all this the Brahmin understood the entire matter, and immediately he started praying chants. Hearing this, the devil ran away immediately as fast as he could. Then the Brahmin took out a stick and chased away the robber. In this way the Brahmin got rid from both the devil and the robber.

The wise indeed say:

When thieves fall out, you stand to benefit.

Once there lived a Brahmin, named Mitra Sharma in a small village. He was a deity of Fire- God and worshiped daily. One day during rainy season, when the sky was crowded with clouds, he wanted to conduct a certain sacrificial ritual. So he went to a nearby village, to meet a follower of God and to request him for a goat that he will offer it as a sacrifice to the Gods.
As the Brahmin reached, he requested the follower of God, “Son, I want to perform a sacrificial ritual at this prosperous time. So I came here to you, please give me a well fed goat.” The man agreed with him and gave the Brahmin one of his best goats. After that the Brahmin started his journey to his home. 
The Brahmin carried the goat on his shoulders so that he did not have any problems in controlling the goat on his way. As he covered only a few distances, three thieves followed him at a certain distance so that the Brahmin did not notice them. They were very hungry and they knew that the Brahmin was alone with his goat. 
They started discussing, “We will save ourselves from this hunger, in this rainy season, if we can got success in cheating the Brahmin and steal the goat.” So they made a plan to cheat the Brahmin, in order to gain the goat for themselves.
According to the plan the first thief stood in the path of the Brahmin with a road in his hand. As the Brahmin reached him with the goat on his shoulder, he said to him, “O Brahmin, why are you carrying a dog on his shoulder? What is the reason that you behave so foolishly.” On hearing this the Brahmin got very angry and he replied him, “Can’t you see the difference between a dog and a goat? Are you blind? Can't you see I am carrying a sacrificial goat?"
Then the thief thought he played his part and said to him, “Please don't get angry on me. It’s your goat, you may carry it anyway as you want. Please continue your journey.”
The Brahmin continued his journey but as he covered a little distance, the second thief approached him. Then he said to the Brahmin, “O Brahmin, how foolish you are! How can you carry this dead calf on your shoulder? Shame on you!"
The Brahmin got very angry and shouted on him, “Can't you see it is a goat and not a dead calf? Are you blind totally or you lost your mind? Then the thief replied to him, ““Please don't get angry on me. It’s your goat, have it anyway you want it to be.”

When the Brahmin had gone a little further, the third thief approached him and said, "O Brahmin, This is highly shameful for you do something like this. Why do you carry a donkey on your shoulders? Shame on you! Put him down, before anyone sees you doing this!" 

This time the Brahmin began to think that how can the three persons not see that he was carrying a goat? He thought that he must be carrying a goblin, which is changing shape all the time. He terrified, put the goat down and ran away home.

The thieves had succeeded in their plan. They caught the goat and killed him to feast on him.

The wise indeed say:

Untruth spoken repeatedly appears to be truth.

Once there lived a king named Devashakti. He remained very disappointed due to his son because he was very weak and thin. Day by day he became weaker and thinner. The king called all the well known physicians from far off places but they could not cure the king’s son as there was a snake inside his stomach. The physicians tried all types of treatments but they could not succeed.

The prince was also frustrated by himself and his father’s sadness due to his illness. He fed up totally to his life. So he decided to go away to some other place. One night he got success to run away and he reached to another kingdom. He started living in a temple and ate from whatever alms he collected from the people.

This new kingdom was ruled by a king, who had two beautiful young daughters. They both were raised with the best of learning. Every morning they reached her father’s room and bow at their father’s feet to seek his blessings. One of them said to his father, “My dear father, we got all the joy of the world due to your blessing.” And the other daughter said, “O king, one can only get the things which are destined for one’s actions.”

The king was happy with one of his daughter but the comment of the second daughter made him angry day by day. One day he got so angry that he ordered his ministers, “Take her away and marry her with anybody you meet outside the palace. Let her enjoy the fruits that are destined for her actions.”

The ministers followed the king order and they took out the princess outside the palace, but they did not find anybody outside the palace. When they reached the temple they saw the young prince living in the temple. They reached him and then they both were married.

The princess was a religious girl, and she regarded his husband as her God. She was very happy with her marriage. They both decided to travel to a different place of the country, as it is not suitable for them to make the temple as their home.

On their way, the prince became very tired and wanted to take some rest under a tree. As he was getting weaker and weaker every day, he could not walk long distances. While the prince rest under the tree the princess decided to buy some food from the nearby market. So she left to the market, and when she returned, she saw a snake coming out from a nearby hole and her husband still sleeping. As she reached near her husband to alert him, she saw another snake coming from her husband’s mouth. She hid herself to keep a watch on them.

The snake from the hole said to the other snake, “Why are you hurting this young prince? You risk your own life too. If the prince drinks soup of cumin seeds and mustard, you would die for definitely!" 

Then the other snake from the prince’s mouth replied, “Why do you guard two pots of gold which you do not have any need of? You risk your life, too. If someone pours hot water and oil on the hole, you would die definitely!” They both started a heated argument in this way. After few moments they both went inside their respective places, but the princess had already heard all the discussions and she known their secrets. 

She then act accordingly and gave her husband a soup of cumin seeds and mustard and the snake present inside his stomach died. Within few hours, the young prince began to recover and regained much strength. After that, they poured hot water and oil on the hole of the snake and then another snake was also died. They dug out the two pots of gold that the snake was guarding. 

After few days the young princess recovered very much and they also have two pots full of gold. They lived happily ever after.

The wise indeed say:

When your enemies quarrel, you are the winner.

Once there lived a Brahmin named Haridatta in a town. He had a farm which was near his home. He was a very hard working and simple person. Although his hard work in the farm, he could not get enough yields in his farm and even did not full fill his needs. But he continued his hard work in his farm.

One day, during the summer, while he was working in his farm, he could not able to bear the heat of the sun anymore. So he decided to rest for sometime under the shadow of a tree in his farm. Besides the tree there was a hole, in which a black cobra lived. As he reached the tree and start resting there, the black cobra coming out the hole with his hood raised. When Haridatta saw the cobra, first he got scared very much, but suddenly he thought, “Perhaps, this black cobra is the Divinity of the farm. From now, I will worship him and offering him many things. Perhaps, this cobra will impress with me and bless the farm with a high yield produce.”

Suddenly he brought a plate full of milk and offered it in front of the hole of the cobra and said, “O protector of my farm, I was not familiar with your presence here, please forgive me. Please accept my offering.” And then he left the plate there and returned to his home.

The next day when he came to the farm, he immediately reached the hole of the cobra. He shocked when he saw a gold coin on the same plate in which he offered the milk. Then he accepted the coin as a blessing from the cobra.

Days passed away in this way. Every day the Brahmin offered milk in a plate to the cobra and in returned of it he got a gold coin in the same plate next day. The Brahmin started growing a rich man.

After some time, the Brahmin needed to went to another village for some work. He thought if he went away from there then he would offer milk to cobra, and he did not want to hamper worship of him. So he instructed his son to offer milk to the cobra everyday and keep the blessing of him which he gives in return. Then the Brahmin went away.

According to his father’s instructions, the son offered milk to the cobra and then went to home.  Next day when he reached the same place, he got shocked to find the gold coin in the plate. He began to thought, “If the cobra gives gold coin every day, it means he must have a lot of gold coin inside the hole. If I kill the cobra then I can take out all the gold coin in one time.” So he planned to kill the cobra.

The next day the Brahmin’s son reached the place and instead of offering milk to him, he waited for the cobra to come out the hole. So he hit the cobra with a strong stick to kill him in one attempt. As the cobra came out the hole, he hit him badly but the cobra escaped and in anger the cobra bit the Brahmin’s son. He died at the spot and then his body cremated in the same farm by their relatives.

After few days when the Brahmin returned to his home, he heard what had happened and how his son died. His relatives advised him to kill the cobra to take revenge. Although he was very disappointed for his son’s death, but he did not favour his son’s behaviour which led him to death. He did not blame the cobra for this, and did not want to kill him to take revenge.

The next morning, the Brahmin went to offer milk to the cobra as usual. He stood near the hole of cobra and started praying. On hearing this, the cobra came out of the hole and said to him, “You are a greedy man. You have even forgotten your son’s death and have reached here to take a gold coin. You do not come here out of respect but for greed of gold coin. From now our relation has been finished.”

The cobra continued, “I bit your son in revenge to his attack. He want to kill me to take all the coin at one time. He got greedy for gold coin and was died. But he did all out of his hurriedness. How can you forget his death?”

 Then the cobra gave him a diamond this time and said, “The broken love cannot be restored with a show off of affection. Now go away and never come here again.”

The Brahmin went home with the diamond. He mourned at his son’s foolishness which led his death, and he did not return to the cobra again.

The wise indeed say:

Greed crosses all borders of reasoning and ends in disaster.

Once there lived a lion, named Kharanakhara in a jungle. He was the king of that jungle. He went out in the jungle daily in search of food. One day when he wandering around the jungle he did not find a single animal. He was very hungry but it was almost sunset so he started returning to his home.

On his way of returning he saw a big cave and thought, “There must be some animal living in this big cave, as this cave is so beautiful that it cannot be empty. As now it is sunset and whatever animal lives in this cave is bound to return. If I shall hide inside this cave and wait for that animal, I shall definitely find my dinner.” So he immediately entered into the cave and hid himself.

This cave belong to a jackal. He arrived there after a while the lion entered into the cave. When he entering into his cave he noticed the footprints of the lion leading into the cave, but could not find any footprint coming out. He thought for a while, “If a lion indeed entered into the cave and he still there then there is no chance of mine to remain alive. But how can I be sure about this? If there is no lion inside the cave then what is the reason for me to stay away from his home. What should I do to find out if there is any lion inside or not?

Suddenly the jackal made a plan and he stand in front of the cave and began to shout, “O my dear! Hello! Can I come inside?” there was no reply from the cave. He waited for few moments and again shouted, “Hello my cave! Have you forgotten me and our understanding of many years? I enter the cave only you allowed to me and wait until your reply. Why are you not replying today? What happened to you? I shall then go away to some other cave if you do not reply to me. Please reply to me.”

After hearing this the lion began to thought that the cave must reply to the jackal when he returns to the cave after hunting. And now I am here that’s why the cave is not replying to the jackal. If the cave is not replying to the jackal he went away. So I should reply in behalf of the cave.

Within few moments the lion replied from inside the cave, “Dear Jackal, I am not forgotten you. You may enter inside. It is safe.” When the jackal heard this he got frightened and understood that the lion is waiting for him inside the cave and as he enter the cave he make a meal out of him. He suddenly ran away from there as fast as he could and saved his life.

The wise indeed say:

Use your tactics to protect yourself from destruction.

Once there lived an old merchant named Kamatura. He was a widower. Ever since his wife had died long before, he was a love sick person and wanted to re- marry. After some time he got succeed somehow in convincing a merchant to marry his young daughter with him. He gave him a lot of money and married his daughter.

But the another merchant’s daughter was very unhappy with the marriage and he hated her husband as he was an old man. She never talked to him and even did not look at her husband. The old merchant knew the reason for her unhappiness so he would do everything to impress her wife but he did not get success till.

One night, when they both were sleeping on the opposite sides of the bed, a thief came into their house. When the thief moving into the house suddenly he made a noise by mistake. The old merchant’s wife woke up by this sound and she realised that there was someone inside the house. She was terrified and moved towards her husband who was still sleeping. Due to fear she hugged her husband tightly. She did all this without making any sound that’s why the thief did not draw any attention towards her.

After sometime the old merchant awoke and found that her young wife hugging him tightly. He became very happy and thought, “I tried many times to seek her attention but she never respond me, but today she hugging me. There must be a reason that my wife hugging me so tightly.” As he looked around he realised that there was a thief in their house, and it was the reason his wife hugging him due to the fear of the thief.

The old man shouted at the thief, “O dear stranger, I want to thank you. I have tried everything but my wife kept avoiding me always. But today she hugged me so tightly only because of you. I am very happy now and thank you for all this. Please take anything which you want.”

The wise indeed say:

Sometimes, even your enemy can be beneficial to you.
 

Once there lived a merchant, named Sagardatta. He had a son, which is young and smart too. One day his son brought a costly book, which has only one line, “You get only that which is written in your fate, that which destiny decided for you.” When the merchant saw this book he thought that his son was such a big fool who buy such a costly book with only one line written in it. He got very angry and shouted on him, “What nonsense is it, how can you buy such a costly book with only one line written in it. You have no sense for doing business, then how can you do business as me. Get out of my house and came again here.”

The young boy felt very insulted when his father drove away from the house. He then went away from the house and started travelling with his only book. He learnt the line very well and kept revising it all his way.

After sometime he reached a village. When villagers saw him they asked his name, then he replied, “You get only that which is written in your fate, that which destiny decided for you. Then after that day all the villagers called him by this name.

Few days later there came a festival so the princess of the country all came to attend the festival. She saw a good looking prince there, who was also came to attend the festival. With the very moment she saw the prince, she fell in love with him. So she decided to send a message to the prince. Then the princess wrote a message to the princess and gave it to her servant. The servant then gave this letter to the young merchant’s son by fault. The merchant’s son did not know about the message so he though to read it.

 He opened the letter and read that, “The very moment I saw you, I fall in love with you. I want to meet you, please meet me in the palace. When you will come there you will find a rope hanging from one of the windows of my room, which will lead you to my room. Please come I will wait for you.” He began to thought that he will respect the princess wishes so he decided to meet her. 

Then reached the palace and climbed up through the rope and reached the princess’ room. As it was very dark in the room so the princess could not see his face, she thought he was the prince whom she saw in the festival. She received him warmly and served him food and drink. Then she said to him, “I have deeply fallen in love with you. I want to marry with you and want to live with you always. Please tell me what you think about this.”

When the merchant’s son heard this, he replied her, “You get only that which is written in your fate, that which destiny decided for you. The princess got surprised what the prince had said, so she immediately switched on the lights of her room. She got shocked when she saw the merchant’s son in place of the prince and then she ordered him to go out from his room.

The merchant’s son was very sad on treated in such a manner without any mistake. He went out from the room and reached a nearby temple. He decided to spend the night there, so he fell asleep. There were nobody remained in the temple at night, only a watchman lived there. So the watchman carried out bad activities during the night. The watchman wanted the young man to leave the temple, so he said, “This temple is very old and broken from many place. You are not safe here. You may sleep in my home, if you want.” 

The merchant’s son agreed to went to his house. When he reached the watchman’s house it was very dark, so he mistakenly got into the wrong room, where the watchman’s daughter was waiting for her lover in the absence of her father. When he reached the room, the watchman's daughter mistook him as his lover. She then immediately exchanged garlands in front of the picture of God. Therefore according to their tradition they got married. 
The merchant’s son did not understand what has happening so he said, “You get only that which is written in your fate, that which destiny decided for you. When the watchman’s daughter heard this, she realised she had made a mistake and began to thought, “It’s all happened due to mistake and such mistake is destined to happened when be doing something without thinking sufficiently about It.” She got very angry and cursed him and threw him out of the house.

The merchant’s son felt very insulted by being treated in such a manner again and again, he was very sad. When he started walking, he saw a marriage procession approaching there. They all had expensive clothes, and wore heavy jewels. He thought to follow the groom's procession, which was going to the bride's home. So he began to follow them. He reached the ceremony place with all other guest.

Suddenly a mad elephant came there and everybody start to move here and there to save his life. The bride could not understand what to do, so she remain stood there, too afraid to ran there. When the merchant’s son saw this, he immediately reached the elephant and got hold him and began to frightened him with his huge nails. The elephant got frightened and ran away. 

After some time when the bride’s friends and other relatives returned at the place, the bride said to them, “At the time when my life was in danger and I am alone, there was no one presented here to help me to help me. This unknown person helped me without thinking about his life. I will marry only this person and none other than him. This is my last decision." All the peoples present there started offending her decision and there was a heated argument took place there. Within few moments, the king arrived there to appease everybody and stop the argument. Everybody including the princess and the watchman’s daughter arrived at the place.

 The king then asked the merchant’s son, “You came the ceremony and saved the bride and all the people from the elephant, it is said by all these. I want to know whole thing from you. Tell me what has happened here.” The young man replied, “You get only that which is written in your fate, that which destiny decided for you.” 

The princess and the watchman's daughter were embarrassed to hear the words. When the king heard this from the young man and saw the princess and the watchman’s daughter smiling on hearing these words, he demanded to know the truth. 
Then the watchman’s daughter told him how he marrying him by mistake, and said, “It was my fate and I now I accept it.”
Then the princess explained to the king that how she had spent time with him by mistake, and said, “It was my fate and I do not regret it.”
On hearing all this, the bride said to the king, “O King, all happened with me due to my destiny and what destiny has given to me, none can take away from me!" 

After hearing everybody the king agreed to marry his daughter to the merchant’s son. The king arranged for a ceremony. He married the young man with his young princess, and made him his heir to his empire. He gifted the young merchant's son with a thousand villages, apart from ornaments and Golds.

The bride and the watchman's daughter were also married to him in the same ceremony. After some time the merchant’s son built his own palace for his parents and they all lived happily ever after.

The wise indeed say:

Do your best but leave it to destiny.
 

Once there lived a Brahmin with his wife named Shandili, in an outer area of a city. They were very poor but they live happily together.
One day the Brahmin said to his wife, “There is a special day tomorrow, there is a festival. So it will be a good time for alms. I shall visit the city tomorrow and I am sure that I shall collect a lot of things for us which will last for many days.” He continued himself, “You must invite a Brahmin tomorrow and take him food and clothes. It is an auspicious day so it will be a good act.”
After hearing this, his wife said to him, “How can you say all this? We are already very poor, we cannot invite any Brahmin. We cannot afford good food and good clothes for giving a Brahmin.”  But the Brahmin began to explained her, “My dear wife, whatever we have we must share at least half of it with a needy person. It is a good deed.”
After much of conversation the Brahmini agreed to him. She said, “I have only some sesame seeds to offer a Brahmin. I will clean it properly and remove their husks, and cook a delicious dish for a Brahmin."  The Brahmin agreed.
The next morning the Brahmin went to the city according to the plan. When he gone away, his wife began to clean the sesame seeds and removed their husks. After that she put the seeds in the sun and began to start his household work. After sometime when she was busy with her household activities, a dog came there and contaminated the seeds. When she saw the dog she immediately ran towards the dog and the dog went away. 
She became very sad and thought, “Fate has ruined all my efforts. But I have nothing else except these sesame seeds. So I will try to play a trick with my neighbour. When I will offer these cleaned, un-husked seeds in exchange of some husked sesame seeds, she will not suspect to me and will definitely accept the offer.”
Then she went to her neighbour and offered an exchange. The lady was attracted towards the offer. She thought that it takes much time to clean these husked seeds. The offer is quite good. So she agreed to accept her exchange offer. As she take out some husked sesame seeds to give the Brahmini and began to give her, her son came out. He said to his mother, “MAA! Who would exchange cleaned sesame seeds with uncleaned ones? There must be some reason that she offers such exchange offer. There may be a trick behind all this. Please do not accept the exchange." 

When the lady heard her son’s advice, she began to thought and at last refused for the offer. Then the Shandili realized that she had failed to play the trick on her neighbour, and then she returned home.

The wise indeed say:

When someone offers you something that is too good to be true, don't be accepted it immediately – Think and analyse it first.

Once there was a village which was destroyed due to a strong earthquake. All the houses were ruined completely so the villagers decided to left the village to settle at different place. When the villagers went away from the village a number of mice had came there and made the vacant shattered houses as their home. The mice loved to live there as he found such places very comfortable, and after some time a large number of mice came to live there. They lived very comfortably there and time passed away in such a way.

There was lake in the outer area of the village where a large number of animals used to visit regularly. In these animals a group of elephants also used to came the lake regularly to drink water and to take bath. These elephants came from the ruined village to reach the lake regularly. And as the group of elephant passed through the village a large number of mice got injured heavily. This cause a serious problem to the mice. So they all went to their king and explained the problem. The king of mice then decided to talk to the elephants to request them to act accordingly.

On the next day when the group of elephant came, the king of mice reached the elephants and said to them, “My masters, we mice live in this ruined village and when you all travelled through this area everyday it get destroyed many of mice. It is a serious problem for us. Thus I request you to all please understand our problem and change our way to the lake. If you do this, I promise to you all to return the favour in your time of need. I shall help you whenever you need.”

As the elephants listened this they all began to laugh at him. The king of the elephant said, “O small mice, what you can do for us? You are so small there will be no reason to take favour from you. We are the huge elephants and we do not need to take help from you. But I respect your request, so we will change our way to lake from this moment. You need not worry about any problem caused by us anymore.” Then the king of the mice thanked the king of the elephant for their help, and then the elephants went away.

The mice lived happily thereafter, and there is no harm to them after that day. After some days, some hunters trapped the group of elephants. Most of the elephants including their king got trapped into the net set by the elephant- hunters. They tried hard to flew away from the net but all their attempts went into vain. As the net was so strong the other elephant that are not trapped into the net, could not do anything to set free their friends.

Suddenly the king of elephants remembered the promise of the king of the mice. He ordered another elephant, which had not got trapped into the net to reach the king of the mice to remind him his promise and helped them.

As the elephant reached the king of the mice, he narrated the entire story to him. As soon as the king of mice listen this, he suddenly called all the mice and said to them, “Now is the time for us to help our friends and return their favour. We should reach to them immediately.”

And then all the mice reached to the place where all the elephants had been trapped. Within few moments they all started biting the strong net and cut the entire net at last. The elephants came out from the net and were become very happy. Then the king of the elephants expressed his gratitude to the king of mice for their help in time of need. After that day they became good friends forever.

 The wise indeed say:

Never underestimate anybody by their appearances.