The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal — South Asia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the Punjab, in the north of India, to a hot white road with the dust lying still and nobody about. There is a tiger in a cage beside that road, and he is very good at asking. The kind old man who lets him out gets one concession for his trouble: the tiger will hear the judgement of the first three things they ask. The pipal tree has its own opinion about gratitude. So does the buffalo at the water wheel, and so does the road. And then a small thin jackal comes out of the long grass, and cannot seem to follow the story at all.
Source & tradition: Indian tradition…
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