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Panchatantra Stories
Panchatantra, is a collection of five volumes of stories written by a teacher to help instruct the different aspects of kinghood for princes. Long ago in the kingdom of Mahilaropya, there lived a king who was ruling very ideally. He had three sons, who were not intelligent. The king was worried about the heir to the throne, as he knew that his sons were incapable of governing. He was desperate to find a good and knowledgeable teacher for his sons who would teach them the scriptures and make them knowledgeable in a short time. His minister then pointed towards a skilled pundit, VishnuSharman. Vishnusharman was old and the king was worried as to how the teacher could accomplish the teaching to his sons as he told that even an intelligent man takes more than twelve years to grasp all the elements of scriptures. Then VishnuSharman convinced the king that he would teach the princes about kingly conduct through a series of stories, which would be more effective than the scriptures. Thus Vishnusharman compiled the collection in five volumes termed as PanchaTantra meant to serve as the guide for the princes to learn about kingly behaviour. The five volumes together serve as a manual for a prospective king, to help him in deciding how to rule, how to choose his fellow friends, fellow ministers, how to conduct himself in daily life etc. The collection of stories in Pancha Tantra are a real treat for parents to help them in guiding them towards values in human life. Every story in Pancha Tantra is accompanied by a moral. ( Courtesy: http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/panchatantra.html ) Once upon a time there lived a crow couple, who had built a nest on the top of a tree. But unfortunately the tree was inhabited by a serpent at its bottom. So the serpent used to crawl up the tree and eat all the eggs that the lady crow used to lay. The crow couple were deeply grieved and when this happened time after time, then they decided that the serpent was to be get rid of by a plan. So the crow then approached his friend the
jackal and asked for a plan. The jackal then told him to go and fetch a costly
thing from the palace of the king and throw the thing in the burrow of the
snake. The crow went to palace, and stole a necklace of the queen while she was
bathing. The gaurds of the palace ran after it. The crow then dropped the
necklace in the burrow of the snake beneath the tree. ( Courtesy: http://www.indiaoz.com.au/hinduism/kids_corner/panchatantra/panchatantra7.shtml )
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