THE
STORY OF A TORTOISE
Once there was tortoise by name Kambugreeva in a lake.
It has the friendship with two swans by name Sankata and Vikata which were
lived in the same. After coming to the
bank of the lake and sharing the different stories of divine beings, divine and
great sages they used to move their nest in the evening twilight daily. Once upon a time, due to the lack of rain,
the lake got dried. So those two
troubled Sankata and Vikata told the tortoise thus: Oh! Friend! We are worried
that how do you continue to live in this lake which got dried. On hearing this
the Kambugreeva replied thus: this is not fair to live in this waterless lake
now. Both of you may think an idea because
“Tyaajyam na dhairyam vidhure(a)pi kale
Dhairyaath kadhaachith gathim aapnuyaath sah l
Yathaa samudhre(a)pi cha pothabhange
Saamyaathriko
vaanchathi tharthumeva ll ”
“As a voyager who wishes to cross the ocean when his
boat got broken likewise even in the crisis, one should not give up the courage
by which one can get the hope. Moreover,
according to Manu,
“Mithraarthe Bandhavaarthe cha buddhimaan
yathathe sadha l
Jaathaasu
Aapathsu yathnena jagaadha idham vacho manuh ll ”
a wise always should strive hard for the sake of
friends and relatives when they are in crisis”.
So please bring a strong rope and a short wood-piece. Search out a lake with abundance of water.
When I will hold it with my teeth, both of you hold the extreme end of that
wood piece and carry me to that lake. Then the swans Sankata and Vikata
accepted Kambugreeva’s idea and warned him thus: We will do as per your plan,
but you should keep silence. Otherwise
you will fall down.
Then, by doing so, Kambugreeva was happened to watch
the people who looked at these three peculiar friends, and asked themselves
thus: What is this cart-like thing which is being carried by the two birds in
the sky? On hearing the words of the
people, Kambugreeva when it wished to
ask and started, immediately it has fallen on the earth and perished into pieces.
Moral of the Story:
“Suhrudhaam hithakaamaanaam na karothi iha
yo vachah l
Sa
korma iva dhurbuddhih kaashtaadh bhrashto vinasyathi ll ”
One should always listen the advice of a real friend.
Otherwise he face the crisis like a tortoise which slipped from the wood-piece
while moving in the space.
(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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