Blogchatter is organizing a month long campaign-#write a page a day in which I will be presenting a blogpost every day with a moral tale for all the 28 days of this month February.
A hare and a lion
There was a lion by name
Durdhaanta(uncontrollable) in the forest called Mandara. He was always killing the animals. Then all the animals joined together and requested thus: “Why are
you killing all the animals? We ourselves will give you one animal every day
for your prey”. The lion said ‘let it be so’. Then, the lion was eating an animal
every day which was sent for him.
Afterwards, once upon a
time that was a turn of an old hare. It thought thus: “With the desire to live
let me do something to frighten the lion, if I am going to die, what is the use
of pleasing the lion? Therefore I shall make delay to go near that lion”.
By thinking so, the hare
reached near the lion. Then the lion which was suffering from hunger asked the
hare with anger thus: “What is the reason for your late arrival?” Then the hare said thus: “I have not
committed any fault. I was seen and forcible caught by another lion. After having promised that lion to come
back. So I have come here to inform
you”.
On hearing the words of
the hare, the angry lion said thus: “Show that immediately. Where is that rogue reside?” Then the hare
took that lion near a deep well. “Please
come here and see for yourself Master!” Saying so, the hare showed the lion its
own reflection in the water of the well. Then the lion being puffed with its
pride, jumped into the well out of anger.
With legs upwards and head downwards, the lion got drowned in the water
and breathed its last.
The moral of the story:-
“Buddhir yasya balam thasya
Nirbuddhestu kutho balam l
Vane simho madhonmatthah
Sasakena nipaathithahah ll”
“He who possesses intelligence as strength and there
is no strength for a person devoid of intelligence. In the forest the powerful lion which was
intoxicated with pride was easily killed by a weak hare”.
(This
story is taken from the titled Suhrudbhedhah the 2nd volume of the book
Hitopadesa which has four volumes viz., Mitralaabhah, Suhrudbedhah, Vigrahah
and Sandhi written by Narayana Pandita who lived in later part of the 14th
Century A.D.)
(#WriteAPageADay, today's word count = 366)
This is a part of Blogchatter's write a page a day campaign.
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