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Indian fairy tales
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Inspirational -Moral Stories
Fairy tales are dealing with
supernatural beings. Fairy tales may be written or told for the amusement of
children or may have a more sophisticated narrative containing supernatural or
obviously improbable events, scenes, and personages
The Broken Pot
THERE lived in a certain
place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavakripana, which means "a born miser." He
had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having dined off it, he
filled a pot with what was left over. He hung the pot on a peg on the wall,
placed his couch ( Bed) beneath, and looking intently at it all the night,
he thought, "Ah, that pot is indeed brimful of rice. Now, if there should be a
famine, I should certainly make a hundred rupees by it. With this I shall buy a
couple of goats. They will have young ones every six months, and thus I shall
have a whole herd of goats. Then, with the goats, I shall buy cows. As soon as
they have calved, I shall sell the calves. Then, with the calves, I shall buy
buffaloes; with the buffaloes, mares. When the mares have foaled, I shall have
plenty of horses; and when I sell them, plenty of gold. With that gold I shall
get a house with four wings. And then a Brahman will come to my house, and will
give me his beautiful daughter, with a large dowry. She will have a son, and I
shall call him Somasarman. When he is old enough to be danced on his father's
knee, I shall sit with a book at the back of the stable, and while I am reading,
the boy will see me, jump from his mother's lap, and run towards me to be danced
on my knee. He will come too near the horse's hoof, and, full of anger, I shall
call to my wife, 'Take the baby; take him!' But she, distracted by some domestic
work, does not hear me. Then I get up, and give her such a kick with my foot."
While he thought this, he gave a kick with his foot, and broke the pot. All the
rice fell over him, and made him quite white. Therefore, I say, "He who makes
foolish plans for the future will be white all over, like the father of
Somasarman."
( Courtesy:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ift/ift06.htm )
The Snake
PrinceA poor woman,
with nothing to eat, went to bathe. When she came out of the
river, she found a poisonous snake in her pot. She took it home,
so it would bite her and end her misery. When she opened the
pot, she found a rich necklace. She sold it to the king. The
king put it in a chest, but when he opened it to show the queen,
he found a baby boy. He and the queen raised it as their son,
and the old woman was the nurse. She spoke a little of how that
boy came about.
The king had concluded with a
neighboring king that his son should marry that king's daughter,
and when the daughter came to marry, her mother warned her to
ask about the magic. She refused to speak until he told her. He
told her the story, that he was prince from far off who had been
turned into a snake, and then he became a snake again. The
princess mourned for the prince where he had vanished, and the
snake came to her. He told that if she put bowls of milk and
sugar in the four corners of the room, snakes would come, led by
the Queen of the Snakes. If she stood in the queen's way, she
could ask for her husband, but if she were frightened and did
not, she could not have him back.
The princess did as he said,
and won back her husband.
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