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NandiSootra
The crafty understood everything. He thought that if he disputed, the matter would go to the king. Without gaining anything he would lose all his wealth. He had got his lesson. He at once told the actual story about the treasure, begged his friend's pardon and shared the treasure with his friend. The sincere one also returned the little boys. This is a good example of Autpattiki Buddhi.
7. Education (of archery) - Travelling around an expert archer once came to a town. The inhabitants of the town came to know of his expertise and many young boys from wealthy families came to him to learn archery. When their education was complete they gave their teacher a big purse of money as gift. When the guardians of these boys got this news they were annoyed. They all unanimously decided that when the archer leaves for his village, they will apprehend him, beat him up and recover all the money.
The archer somehow came to know of this conspiracy against him. He furtively sent a message to his friends in his village that on the coming fifteenth day of the bright half of this month he will throw some dung-balls in the river. These floating balls will reach their village, which was down river, after some time. These balls should bepicked out from the river and carefully stored till he came back. He then collected a heap of cow-dung and made balls from it concealing a portion of his wealth in each ball. After all his money was concealed in the balls he left them to dry. At an opportune moment he called his students and said - "It is my family
Inthelled his students and coid ism tradition that after the education of my students is complete, on an auspicious day after a dip in the holy river; dung-balls are thrown in the river with chanting of mantras. This signifies the throwing away of dung-like-ignorance. Your education is complete now; therefore we shall have this convocation function on the coming 15th of the bright half of the month.
On the fixed date the function was organised. In presence of the prominent citizens of the town all the dung-balls were thrown m the river with mantra chanting. As planned, the archer's friends in his village were waiting for the floating balls. They collected all the balls, tied them carefully into a bundle and stored the bundle at a secure place.
A few days later the archer announced his date of departure. When that day arrived all his students came to bid him farewell. The curious guardians also came. In their presence the archer bid everyone good bye and left as he was standing, dressed as when he had come. He carried nothing in his hand in which he could carry the presumed large purse of wealth. The guardians were surprised to see that he was going back as poor as he had come. They accepted what they saw, that he was carrying no wealth and dropped their idea of way laying him.
8. Ethics - A person had two wives. One had a son and the other was barren. But the two of them took care of the child with same affection and love. Due to this uniform behaviour even the child was not aware that which of them his true mother was. Once that merchant came to Ayodhya, the city where king Megh (the father of Bhagavan Sumatinath) ruled. Unfortunately he died there. After his death there was a dispute between the two wives about the son because property rights belonged the real mother of the son.
The dispute finally reached king Megh. He also was unable to come to a conclusion. When queen Sumangala came to know of this shecalled the two women and said - "I am pregnant and will give birth to a son after a few months. When he becomes major after some years he will decide about your casf. Till then you all live Aagam- 44 -NandiSootra
72 - Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
