Hisham bin Abd Al-Malik bin Marwan, the Caliph, was hunting an antelope. As he was chasing, he came across an Arab youth grazing his sheep. As the Caliph lost sight of the antelope, his anger turned towards the boy and accused him of letting the antelope escape. But the youth retorted by calling him ill-mannered […]
In desperation, Satyabhama rushed to Rukmini’s private chambers and requested for help. Rukmini plucked a single leaf of tulsi (sacred basil) and went to the weighing scales. Praying to Krishna, Rukmini placed the single tulsi leaf on all the piled up wealth. The plate on which Krishna sat flew up and remained underbalanced! “Try removing
In the royal city of Labtayt, a new King of the Greeks used to set a new and strong lock upon the tower until there were 4 and 24 locks on the gate, apropos the number of Kings. One day, a certain man not from the royal house intended to open these locks to see
Satyabhama kept adding more and more of her wealth on the plate of the scales, but the plate with Krishna did not even budge. Narada kept warning her, “Remember! If you fail to supply me with sufficient wealth, Krishna will forever be a slave to me. I can even bid him out to anyone I
Chapter 3 Two weeks had passed after which the doctor held a dinner with a few old friends. This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times. and the lawyer chose to stay behind while all the other guests had left. But Dr. Jekyll could not be more pleased
One day, Maan bin Zaidah went out hunting animals. In the course of hunting, he got separated from his soldiers and was left alone to do the hunt. He saw a herd of gazelles and slaughtered one to separate the skin from flesh. As he was cutting the animal, he saw a man from Kzaah
Chapter 2 Mr Utterson returned to the lonely home, not feeling very good. He decided to skip over dinner due to the lack of apetite. Like every other Sunday, he sat by the hearth and read. He waited for the church clock next door to strike twelve after which he would quietly go to bed.
Maan bin Zaidah was fond of hunting animals and birds and chasing wild animals. One day he was on a hunting trip with his soldiers and felt thirsty. There was no water with him or with any of his soldiers. Suddenly he saw three damsels going his way with three skins of water. Shahrazad perceived
Satyabhama commanded servants to bring out the large scales used to weigh grains and groceries. She also sent the treasurer to bring out all her jewels and gold to the garden of the palace. Then, gently leading Krishna, she went to the weighing scales. All the ministers stared at the scales. Krishna was quiet all
They say that the Hatim of the Tai tribe was buried atop a mountain and his grave was set over by two troughs hewn out of two rocks and stone girls with tangled hair. The mountain had a running water stream and the campers always heard loud outcries of girls in the night until daybreak,
Once a sparrow had devotion to a peacock and treated it like his king, serving him well from dawn to dusk. The ‘king’ peacock appointed the sparrow as his Prime Minister. He was the first to meet the Peacock and last to go after serving well. One day he was in a pensive mood after
A weaver in a certain village worked very hard but could not make enough to live comfortably. Once he was invited to a wedding in the neighbourhood where he saw many people of high class wearing good attires, and thought of changing his profession so that he might earn well. Just then he saw one
Once there was a man, professionally a thief, who though never made his way into any of the street markets of the city he stayed, yet collected a lot of money. He had a monkey too. One fine day, he passed a man selling worn clothes in the market to the people who didn’t show
Sage Narada advised Satyabhama, “Make a vow that you will hand over Lord Krishna as alms (Daan) to me. But I will allow you to trade him in for an equivalent weight of your riches. Seeing that you are willing to trade in your wealth for Him, Lord Krishna will admire you for your sacrifice
Once a wealthy merchant of Sindah took all his mer-chandise on his camels and set out to other cities to sell them. On his way he met two sharpers who pretended to be traders and requested to be taken with him. The merchant trusted them and agreed to travel along with them. When they halted