Tenali Rama and the Brinjal Curry
Sri Krishna Devaraya was the emperor of Vizayanagra. He had eight advisors. Tenali Rama was one of them. He was very clever and spontaneous. Sri Krishna Devaraya had some special reasonably brinjal plants in his garden. The brinjal was a very rare kind and curry made out of it absolutely was very tasty which was loved by the emperor. because it was a rare kind, the garden was very guarded and nobody was allowed to look at the plants without the emperor’s permission.
Once the emperor had arranged dinner for his advisors and therefore the brinjal curry was served. Tenali Rama had enjoyed the brinjal curry considerably and went home. But he was unable to forget the taste. He told his wife about the taste of curry. Tenali Rama’s wife also liked brinjal curry, she asked Tenali Rama to bring few brinjals in order that she will prepare a curry. But Tenali Rama knew that the emperor was taking extreme care about the Brinjal plants and he can easily detect a missing of even one brinjal from his garden. And, the emperor will punish such thief if caught stealing brinjal from his garden.
But Tenali’s wife pleaded him to bring brinjal from the garden without telling anybody. Tenali Rama had no choice aside from stealing brinjal from the emperor’s garden. One night he visited the garden, jumped the wall, and plucked a few brinjals from the garden. By god’s grace, nobody had seen him. His wife cooked the brinjals and therefore the curry was very tasty. Like all the mothers, she too loved her son considerably and wanted to serve brinjal curry to him. But Tenali Rama asked her to not do such a thing because if their son reveals to anybody that he had a rare brinjal curry, then they'll get caught and obtain punished for stealing brinjal from the garden.
But his wife didn't agree. She wanted to serve the curry to her son. She was unable to eat the curry alone without serving her little kid who was sleeping after doing his homework on the roof of their house. She asked Tenali Rama to seek out how in order that their son also can taste the brinjal curry. Tenali Rama also loved his son, so he thought of thought and with tons of hesitation went on to the roof to awaken his child with a bucket of water and poured the water on the kid. When the kid awakened he said, “It is raining. Let’s go inside the house and have dinner”. After going inside the space he changed the garments of his son and gave him the rice and brinjal curry for the dinner. Tenali Rama told his wife loudly that “it was raining outside, and let the boy sleep within the room”.
And the next day, the emperor came to understand that few brinjals were missing in his garden. The Gardener who kept the count of every vegetable and flower found that the three brinjals were missing. It became a challenging issue for the emperor and took it very seriously. He declared a gift for the one that can catch the thief. Chief advisor Appaji suspected that only Tenali Rama was capable of doing such things. and that they told the emperor about it. The emperor sent his courtiers and asked Tenali Rama to return immediately. Once Tenali Rama came he asked him about the missing brinjals. Then Tenali Rama told, “I wasn't conscious of the missing brinjals”. Then the chief advisor told, “Tenali Rama was lying. Let’s enquire his son”.
The king sent his courtiers to bring Tenali Rama’s son. Once his son came, He was asked what vegetable he had within the dinner last night. the kid replied, “The brinjal curry and it had been very tasty”. Then the advisor told Tenali Rama that He must accept his crime. But Tenali Rama said his son had slept very early and he could be saying something which he came to his dream.
So the emperor asked the small kid that “can you please explain clearly what had you done yesterday after coming from school?”
Tenali Rama’s son replied that “yesterday after coming from the varsity, I played for a few times, and then, I went on to the roof, did my homework, and slept on the roof. But when the rain started, my father came and woke me up. By that point my dress was fully wet, then we went inside, had the dinner, and slept again”.
The chief advisor Appaji was shocked because there was no rain in the least yesterday. and therefore the atmosphere was fully dry. in order that they thought the child had a dream and freed Tenali Rama with no punishment. However, later Tenali Raman told the reality to the emperor and was pardoned by the emperor for his clever witty idea.
Moral: to start out with – Stealing isn't an honest thing! you'll always use your brain and ease out of difficult situations.
Read also: The Early Childhood Of Tenali Ramakrishna
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