One day, Rama and Laxman saw a girl walking with a huge nose-ring. The brothers thought of a mischief. Laxman shot an arrow. While the girl was walking, the arrow came next to her nose and started pouring some mystical substance on the nose-ring, which became so small that it got stuck on her nose. She could only breathe through one nostril and was very confused. Rama then shot another arrow that made it big enough that she could breathe through both the nostrils. She turned around and asked what they were doing with her. Laxman replied, “ We made your nose-ring small, but it was too small so we made it big.” She said that she did not believe it. Laxman said, “Oh, you don’t believe it? So, we will take it off.” Laxman then shot another arrow which took the nose-ring out of her nose, and all this was happening without touching her face. And then the nose-ring was flying in the sky, and the girl began to cry out, “My nose-ring!” Very quickly Rama fired another arrow and put the nose-ring back in the nose. Such were the childhood pastimes of Rama.
RAMA AND THE NOSE-RING
