Mitralabha

 1.There is  a bird known as a Bharunda bord. It has two heads. One day,this bird saw a fruit. The first head ate the fruit. The second head said he wanted it. The first said they had the same stomach. The bird saw a poisonous fruit. The first head ate it. The bird died. 

2.n the southern country is a city called Mahilaropya, and in its neighborhood, there is a Shiva shrine. In a cell nearby lived a hermit named Tamrachud. Every day he would travel into the city to collect alms, and come back to cook his meal with the food he had collected. After his meal, he would hide the leftovers in the alms-bowl and leave them hanging on a peg, keeping it for the servants’ breakfast.

In the same house lived a mouse named Hiranyaka, he was the leader of all the mice. One day, all the mice went to him and complained, “O Lord, the hermit is storing the food in his bowl and hanging it high on a peg. We are not able to nibble at it. You alone can reach any place. Please help us.” Accompanied by his subjects, he went to the hermit’s place and springing at the bowl brought the stored food down. All of them had a good meal and repeated this act every night and the hermit was disgusted. He moved it from place to place, always hanging it higher but they would get to it easily enough and devour it with my subjects. hermit brought a bamboo and began striking the food bowl with it. That noise used to frighten us and we would have to wait for him to fall asleep before getting close to the food bowl.

Now one day a guest arrived, a holy man named Brihat. Tamrachud received him with great respect and did whatever he could to make the honored guest happy. At night they lay on the couch and started to relate holy tales. But Tamrachud’s thoughts were so preoccupied with mice that he kept striking the alms bowl with the bamboo and returned an absentminded answer to Brihat as he asked him a question.

Angered with Tamrachud’s indifference, Brihat told him, “O Tamrachud! You aren’t a great friend of mine anymore. You are not paying attention to our talk. So, night though it is, I shall leave your place and go elsewhere.” “Status and ownership of this cell has gone to your head. You do not care for my friendship anymore. You seem to dwell here, but in reality, you have earned a place in hell. You have become vain and proud.”

On hearing this, Tamrachud pleaded with him, “Holy sir, please do not speak like this. There is no other friend apart from you. Here is the reason for my inattention. There is a mouse that jumps and climbs to my alms-bowl, however high I hang it, and he eats my leavings. As a result, I am not able to feed the servants and they refuse to tidy up. So to frighten the mouse, I strike the alms-bowl repeatedly with my bamboo. This is the whole story. But I should add that the villain has such cleverness in jumping as to put cats, monkeys, and other creatures to shame.”

Then Brihat said, “Do you know where the mouse-hole is?”

“Holy sir,” said Tamrachud, “I have no  idea.” Brihat said, “Surely, this mouse must have stored a lot of food under his hole. Beyond doubt, it’s the fragrance from his plentiful hoard that gives him the energy to jump so high and eat all your food. When a man earns a lot of wealth, that pile of money increases his strength and confidence.”

Brihat continued, “There is an explanation for everything in this world. There is a reason for Shandili trying to exchange husked sesame seeds in return for degraded sesame seeds.” and told the story of Shandili and Sesame Seeds.

After completing the story, Brihat asked Tamrachud, “Do you know his manner of attack?”

“Yes, holy sir, he comes with a school of mice,” answered Tamrachud.

“Well now,” said Brihat, “is there any digging tool around here?” “Indeed there is,” said Tamrachud. “Here is an iron bar.”

“In that case, let’s wake up early and follow their tracks together, while their footprints are still fresh on the floor,” said Brihat.

The mouse was nearby and heard all of their plans and thought that his end had come. Just as he had marked my food store, he will surely discover my fort too. So terrified, he deserted the regular route to his fortress, and with his followers started on another track. Just then a fat cat sighted us and pounced on the group and killed a number of his retinue. 

3. A hunter shot a boat. The boar killed the hunter before dying. A jackal came there. It decided to eat the boar first. The arrow pierced the jackal's mouth and killed him. 

4. A weaver was about to cut a tree. A fairy said "I will grant you a wish if you don't cut this tree." The weaver asked a friend for a wish. The friend said "Wish for another head, 2 more arms and 2 more legs." The weaver got his extra body parts. Everyone thought he was a demon and killed him. 

5. Some elephants killed mice that lived in an abandoned village. The mice asked them not to. They stopped. One day,the elephants were trapped. The elephant king told a free elephant to bring the mice. The mice came and cut the roles.