Folktale

On Offering Food to the Dead Once upon a time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, a Brāhman, a world-famous…

The bold beggar is a story about a man who had often see the king eat and thought he would like a taste of the King’s choice food. And this is what he did.

The Quail and the Falcon: There once was a young Quail that lived on a farm. When the farmer ploughed up the land, Quailie used to hop about over the clods and pick up seeds, or weeds, or worms, or anything that the plough turned up, and he ate these and lived on them.