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King Vikramaditya with more
patience gets on to the tree and takes Bhethal one more time on his shoulder.
Starts his walk away from the tree. When Bhethal again starts telling one more
story, O King..!! I will tell you a surprising story which you never heard. You
have to answer after listening to the story or else your head will be cracked
into 1000 pieces.
Once there lived a Brahmin named
Bhushana in the country of Vanga. He has three sons, one day father thinks of
doing a Yagam and asks his sons to get a turtle from the great ocean. Three of
them reaches the ocean and tells the younger brother to carry the turtle found,
when he says that he is addicted to eating all the time and hence cannot carry
it. Second one says he is addicted to women and hence cannot carry it. Third
says he is addicted to sleep all the time and cannot carry hence.
In this
way they argued with each other and started fighting. They reached to the
kingdom of VijayaNagara for Justice. King Pratap heard of their argument. King
decided to check the truth in each one of them. He invites a women presents her
with most beautiful ornaments and sends near the person who is addicted to
women. He Rejects her saying she has a bad body smell. Knowing this king
inquired about the women with her mother. Her mother tells that she is not her
daughter but her sister’s daughter. As she died in the childhood of women
responsibility was taken by her. She was brought up with goat milk and hence
her body has the bad smell.
King
Invited the best cooks of the kingdom to judge the caliber of the person with
addiction in eating. They cooked the best and delicious foods for him when he
rejects all of them saying they are with stinking smell as a dead body. King
gets surprised by his reaction and Inquires about the food. He comes to know
that all the items brought for cooking are cultivated near a burial ground.
King concludes that it’s the reason of their stinking smell.
King
later asked the courtiers to bring a very soft bed for the third person to
sleep. He slept on the bed and woke up immediately saying the bed is not good.
King Asked him why he did in that manner when he says there is a hair follicle
in the bed and it hurt his body. King surprised and asked the soldiers to open
the bed and check. They found the hair follicle inside the bed.
King
praises three of them for their caliber and presents them with jewels. Now King
Vikramaditya…!! You tell me who among them is more sensitive and tender? Asks
the Bhethal. Vikramaditya says as below, “ The one who is addicted to food and
women has answered with their intelligence. But the one who has hurt with hair
follicle inside the bed is more tender than other.”
Satisfied
with the answer of King Vikramaditya Bhethal flies back to the tree and hangs
as before.
----Another Story Continues
