The Story of Mischief Monkey
In the middle of a certain city, a certain person who was the son of a trader started to build a temple in the middle of the thick rows of tree. He once employed many carpenters, architects and masons to build a temple in his garden. Regularly, they would start work in the morning. One day, persons like architects, carpenters, painters those who were working left their site and gone for their lunch.At this juncture,
accidentally a group of monkeys which were roamed here and there reached that
place. There
a certain carpenter has kept a wooden wedge in the middle of the pillar like
big wood-piece which is not fully cut. The monkeys started to play all over the top of a temple, mansions,
branches of the trees, tower of the shrine as per their wish.
One among them of
which the death is expected in the very next moment, when playfully has plucked
that wooden wedge kept in the middle of that big wood-piece, being crushed with
its tail and the lower part of the body, become dead.
Moral of the story:
"Avyaapaareshu vyaapaaram Yo narah karthum Icchathi l
Sa Eva nidhanam yaathi Keelothpaatee iva vaanarah ll"
It is not wise to poke our nose into unknown affairs.
(This story is taken from the titled Mithrabhedah- the 1st volume of the book PanchaThanthram which has five volumes viz., MitraBedhah, MitraLaabhah, Kaakolookeeyam, Labdhapranaasam and AparikshitaKaarakam written by Vishnu Sarma was an Indian scholar. The exact period of the composition of the Panchatantra is uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 300 CE.
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