“How can we just leave Karpuradweepa without anyone in charge of it?” asked the King. “Sir, we have won the battle. Was it by our strength or by our clever trick that we did so?” asked the vulture. “By the clever plan that you suggested, of course,” said Jewel Plume. “we have thus shown the enemy that we are capable of defeating them somehow. And we have destroyed their fort, establishing the fact that we are superior,” advised the vulture. “Now we should make a peace treaty with them and go back to our kingdom.” “Why do you suggest this, Doordarshi?” asked the King. “Sir, the Swans are our equals in strength. We won by a clever trick, not through strength. It is always wise to make an ally of an enemy who is equal in strength,” said the wise minister, “We should not be like Sunda and Upasunda.”
A Wise Minister
