Story from the Panchatantra-The Monkey and the Wedge

   This is one of the interesting story from the Panchatantra collection. The Panchatantra is very well known tales or fables collection in India. In every story of the Panchatantra, there must be an educational lesson and we consider as a moral of the story.

The Monkey and the Wedge-A Tale from the Panchatantra 

The Monkey and the Wedge

   There was once a merchant who employed many carpenters and architects to build a temple in his garden. Regularly, they would start work in the morning; and take a break for the mid-day meals, and they return to resume work till evening.
 
   One day, a group of monkey arrived at the site of the building and watched the workers leaving for their mid-day meals.
 
   One of the carpenters was sawing a huge log of wood. Since, it was only half-done; he placed a wedge in between to avert the log from closing up. He then went off along with the other workers for his meal.
 
   When all the workers were gone, the group of monkeys came down from the trees and started jumping around the site, and playing with the instruments of the workers.
   There was one monkey, who got curious about the wedge placed between the log. He sat down on the log, and having placed himself in between the half-split log, caught hold of the wedge and started pulling at it.
 
   All on a sudden, the wedge came out. As a result, the half-split log closed in and the monkey got caught in the gap of the log. So, the was the destiny and the monkey died instantly.
 
 
The moral of the story:One, who interferes in other's work, surely comes to misery.

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