This is one of the interesting fables from the Panchatantra collection.In every story of the Panchatantra, there must be an educational lesson and a moral of the story.
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| The Little Mice and the Big Elephant |
The Little Mice and the Big Elephants
Once upon a time, a village was ruined by an earthquake. The houses and roads got totally damaged. The village was totally crushed. Due to this, the villagers were forced to leave their houses and to settle somewhere else. Finding the place vacant, the mice began to live in the destroyed houses. Soon their number grew into hundreds and thousands.
There was a big lake located near the ruined village. A group of elephants used to visit the lake for drinking water. This was the only way available for them to reach the lake. On their way to the lake, the elephants killed hundreds of mice daily under their heavy feet. For this reason, the population of the mice was affected. The problem was getting bigger and bigger day by day.To find out a solution for this problem, the mice held a meeting. They decided that a request should be made to the king of the elephants about this problem.
The King Mice met the King Elephant and asked, “Sir, we live in the ruins of the village, but every time when your group crosses the village, thousands of mice get crushed under the huge feet of your group. Kindly change your route to the lake. We promise to help you in the hour of your need, if you keep my word."
The king elephant laughed on hearing this and replied,” You mice are very small to be of any help to giants like us. But doesn’t matter, we would change our route to reach the lake and making you safer”. The King mice thanked the king elephant and returned home then.
One day a group of elephant-hunters came and trapped the group of elephants in huge strong nets. The elephants struggled hard to free themselves but all in vain. Suddenly, the king of elephants remembered the promise of the king of mice. He ordered one of the elephants of his group which had not been trapped, to go and contact the king of rats.
On listening to the elephant, the king of the mice immediately took his entire group of mice to rescue the group of elephants. He found the elephants trapped in thick nets. The mice set themselves on the task. They were starting to bite the thick net at thousands of spots making it loose. The elephants broke the loose net and got free themselves. They were very grateful to the mice for their great help and became friends for ever.
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