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, …
A pregnant tigress once jumped into the midst of flock of sheep. As she did so, she went into labor, gave birth to a tiger cub, and died on the spot. The kind-hearted sheep nursed the cub and brought him among them. When they ate grass, the cub followed their example; when they bleated, he …
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One day, a loving daughter asked her partially deaf husband, Rangan, to visit her sick father. To help him, she wrote on a piece of paper all the things that Rangan had to do. She also made a list of the things her husband was supposed to say to her sick father. She asked Rangan …
There lived on a hill a man named Kochang. She was very industrious and honest. He had an unfailing faith on Puluga. He would say the Puluga was the creator of the Sun, the Moon, the Stars the Earth and the Ocean. They were all dancing to his tune. Kochang cherished a desire in the …
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The wife of a Kashmiri zamindar was perennially depressed. Any attempt at knowing the secret of her mood might have revealed a history. But each time she told her story one particular cause overshadowed everything else and that was ‘The Lazy One’. You would want to know who that lazy one was but for that …
In Punjab, there is a very interesting myth about the origin of clouds. Once upon a time, a Rishi was doing penance in a forest. He had only one quilt, which had multi-colored patches on it. In severe cold he covered himself with it, and in summer he put it aside. Once the summer was …
Sophet Bneng is a bare dome-like hill, about thirteen miles to the north of Shillong, and not far from the Shillong-Gauhati highroad to the East, from which it is plainly visible. Its name signifies the centre of heaven. From the time of the creation of the world a tall tree, reaching to the sky, grew …
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