The ant and the grasshopper were best friends with very different personalities.The grasshopper would spend his days sleeping or playing his guitar while the ant would collect food and build his ant hill. Every now and then, the grasshopper would tell the ant to take a break. However, the ant would refuse and continue to …
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Once on a time there lived a Brahman who had married a wife, and who lived in the same house with his mother. Near his house was a tank, on the embankment of which stood a tree, on the boughs of which lived a ghost of the kind called Shakchunni. One night the Brahman’s wife had …
Once there was a wealthy man with two wives – the elder one, Laagee (refers to Beloved) and the younger one, Aelaagee (refers to ill-favored). Both had one daughter each. The daughter of the younger wife was Champavati. The elder wife was jealous of both Champavati and her mother. One day, Champavati goes to the rice fields and sings …
The Zoroastrians of Persia (modern-day Iran) fled to avoid forceful conversion by the Islamic invaders and landed in Sanjan, a port in Gujarat by sea (Valsad, present day name). This was following the fall of the Sassanid Empire, to seek refuge in India. Because of the language barrier, King Jadi Rana, the then ruler of Sanjan, …
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