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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There was once a weaver whose field used to be visited every night by an elephant of Indra, the king of heaven. it would come down from the sky and graze in his fields, leaving it devastated. He asked one of his weaver friends what animal could be doing this to his field. He said, …
Once upon a time, there lived in a dense forest a cruel lion, Bhasuraka. He was very arrogant, powerful and ferocious. All the other animals in the forest were his prey. This became a cause of great worry for them because they felt soon there would be no animals left. They decided they should meet …
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Long ago, there lived a sparrow. Once, she picked up a grain of gram and carried it to a stone grinder to break it into two bits. In the process of grinding, a part of the grain came out while the rest of it remained stuck in the wooden pricket that worked as the grinder’s pivot. …
Once upon a time, a tiger was caught in a trap. He tried in vain to get out through the bars, and rolled and bit with rage and grief when he failed. By chance a poor Brahman came by. “Let me out of this cage, oh pious one!” cried the tiger. “Nay, my friend,” replied …
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