The Pancatantra (Penguin Classics) by Visnu Sarma

Author:Visnu Sarma [Sarma, Visnu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2006-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

On seeing him, Lightwing was alarmed and started reflecting nervously, ‘Oho! What crime is this fellow planning to commit now? To cause me mortal harm? Or, alas, has he some other purpose in mind?’ With a burning desire to find out, he kept close behind the fowler.

Soon, the fowler picked a spot, spread his net out, scattered some grain and hid not too far away. The birds that lived there checked by Lightwing’s warning looked askance at the grain as if it were deadly poison and remained quiet.

At this juncture, Sheenneck,2 King of Doves, surrounded by hundreds of dove-retainers, who had been flying around in search of food, saw the scattered grain from far away. In spite of Lightwing’s strong dissuasions, greedy-tongued Sheenneck, alighted on that large net to peck. The moment he settled on the robber’s net, he, with his whole retinue, was caught in its meshes. Nor was it any fault of his; it happened because of an adverse fate. As it is wisely observed:

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