Folk-tales of Kashmir / by the Rev. J. Hinton Knowles.

  • Knowles, James Hinton.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Folk-tales of Kashmir / by the Rev. J. Hinton Knowles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3^ ) A LACH OF RUPEES FOR A BIT OF ADVICE} A POOK blind Lrahnian and his wife were dependent on their son for their subsistence. Every day the young fellow used to go out and get what lie could bv begging.- This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched despicable manner of life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country. He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during tlie few months that he would be absent. He adjured her to be very diligent, lest his parents should be angry and curse him. One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country. Here he went and sat down by a merchant’s shop and asked alms. The merchant inquired whence he had come, why he had come, and what was his caste, to which he replied that ho was a Brahman, and was wandering hither and thither begging a livelihood for himself and wife and parents. Moved with pity for the man, the merchant advised him to visit the kind and generous king of that country, and offered to accompany him to the court. How at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built. His Majesty was very glad, therefore, when he saw the Brahman and lieard that he was good and honest. . He at once deputed liim to tlie charge of this temple, and Narrator’s name, Pandit Chadh Ram of Ilabah Kadal, Srinagar. *