A thing that never ends
A princess was very fond of hearing things. Someone had to sit next to her and keep telling her stories. But when the story was over, she started to feel uncomfortable!
Finally once the king announced, 'The man who from now on, directly until the princess is married and becomes her father-in-law, will continue to tell her an endless story in her spare time, will be paid a monthly salary of one thousand gold mohors.'
After hearing the king's beating in the state, many people not only from the state but also from other states came to the palace to tell her the story. But no one could stretch their story for more than a month or two.
One day a man came to the palace and told the king that he was ready to tell such an endless story to the princess. The king arranged for him to sit. After a while the princess came and sat in front of him and he started telling the story.-
'One was a village called Bhatgaon. In that village there was a huge barn full of rice, eight miles long, four miles wide and two miles high. That village got the name 'Bhatgaon' because of that huge warehouse of rice.'
There was another village nearby. There were only sparrows. Hence the name of that village was 'Chimanpur'.'
The princess excitedly said, 'Oh! Isn't it a lot of fun? But isn't this thing that is so much fun endless?'
The storyteller said, 'It is endless, so I have come to tell you? But Kalavati Raje! Don't talk now. Listen carefully to what I am saying.'
Speaking like this, the storyteller continued, 'What happened once? How can anyone go, but a sparrow of Chimanpur got the news of that warehouse full of rice in Bhatgaon! She came flying to the barn of Bhatgaon and entered through the crack in the barn. She took a grain of rice from that barn in her beak and flew to Chimanpur!
The other sparrow said, 'Sparrow! When many sparrows in the village are dying of eating sparrows due to the enormous increase in the number of sparrows, from where did you bring this tapora grain of mango and mustard rice?' As soon as that sparrow told the truth, another sparrow went to that barn and went inside and took a grain of it and went home!'
'Oh! How brave do you say? tell tell Tell me what happened next.' said the princess excitedly.
'What to say next? What happened happened! A third sparrow came, carrying the grain. The fourth sparrow came, carrying the grain. The fifth sparrow came, carrying the grain. The eleventh sparrow came, carried the grain .. the thirty-second... the seventy-first... the one hundred and first sparrow came, carried the grain !'
At the end of her patience, the princess said, 'How much do you do? When will your cha-hat end?'
The story-teller said, 'I cannot tell the next story until the grain in that great barn is gone, until it is gone.'
The princess said, 'Then you will take ten years to finish the grain in that barn.'
The story teller said, 'Kalawati king, there is no possibility that the grain in that barn will run out even until you get married and go to your in-laws.'
On this, the princess went to the king and said, 'When I was listening to today's story, the whole 'thing' has become such a brick that no one should tell me the story anymore, and I am starting to feel that I should not listen to it!'
The king understood from the princess the nature of the story started by the storyteller. He said to himself, 'Though the storyteller made it up, the brick came out of his daughter's wild passion because of that very thing.' The king was pleased with this, and began to pay the man who had come to tell the never-ending story a monthly salary of one thousand mohors, without telling the story.
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