The Brahmin And The Crooks (Panchatantra Stories In English)

The Brahmin And The Crooks – Panchatantra Stories In English

The Brahmin And The Crooks: Once upon a time, there was a village named, Kashipur. The village was very beautiful and there lived people of all religions and all castes. They always lived together happily. In that village, an old brahmin also lived. His name was Kali-Prasanna.

He was very poor, and his profession was worshiping God. He nurtured his family by worshiping God and by performing some religious rituals.

Furthermore, he had to travel from one place to another for worshiping in temples and performing different kinds of religious ceremonies like marriage ceremonies, thread ceremonies, rice ceremonies, etc. in a different house.

Once he got an invitation to the house of a rich merchant for performing a religious ritual. The Brahmin told that he will attain his ceremony. On that holy day, the brahmin started his journey in the morning towards the house of the merchant.

When The Brahmin reached the house of the merchant, he saw that there happening the worshiping of Lord Ganesha and Devi Lakshmi for the prosperity of their business.

Then The Brahmin listed all the ingredients that were necessary for the worshiping God and when all the necessary things were arranged then the brahmin started the adoration. After worshiping God, he concludes the rituals with a devotional song.

Then the merchant couple bows down to The Brahmin, and then The Brahmin graces them. Then the wife of the merchant offered the brahmin some dry fruits as a Prasad. The brahmin received it and consume the Prasad with respect.

The merchant gave a goat to The Brahmin as an honorarium. The Brahmin was abstemious, but by getting the goat he became very happy. Then he left the house of Merchant happily.

Then The Brahmin started his journey from the merchant’s house to his own house, and there was a forest in between the merchant’s house and The Brahmin’s house.

In that forest, three Crooks observed The Brahmin when he was crossing the forest. The crooks also noticed that The Brahmin carrying a goat in his Soldier.

The Crook was very greedy which was very natural, and they have a craving for the meat when they noticed the goat on the shoulder of The Brahmin, their craving for meat increased. They wanted to get the goat anyhow and consume its meat.

They discussed among themselves that The Brahmin will only eat the milk of that goat. He will never eat is its meat but if they got that Chubby goat they will cook it with different spices and make it so delicious and enjoy the food for dinner with alcohol.

One of the crooks advised them that they will make a plan to snatch the goat from The Brahmin.
Then the first crook said, “maybe The Brahmin is foolish. So it will easy to snatch the goat from him.”

Then the second crook said, “look at the goat, how chubby it is. It must be delicious when we will cook it and serve it as a meal.”

Then the third crook said,” please stop this rubbish discussion please, make a plan as we can snatch the goat easily.”

Then the first crook again replied that how they will get the Goat from The Brahmin as he will never give them the goat as a gift for sure.

Afterward, the second crook replied that they will make him fool. Then The Brahmin will be obliged to give them the goat.

After making the plan, the three crooks divided, and they take their position behind three different trees. Then the first crook came to The Brahmin and said to him, “Oh holy man, why you are carrying a dog in your shoulder. You have to take bath again.”

Then The Brahmin replies to the first crook, “Are you serious or just fun with me, or you cannot see properly. It is a goat which I got as a gift by the merchant for performing religiosity rituals in his house.”

Then the first crook replied, “sorry sir, maybe I cannot see the animal properly. It’s my mistake.”
Then the first crook go away, and The Brahmin started his journey toward his home.

When The Brahmin was busy continuing his walking, then suddenly the second crook entered and said to The Brahmin.

“My dear Friends, So, why are you holding here a deaf calf? What you will do with this calf?”

It is very disrespectful for a brahmin to carry a dead calf. If the other people look at you like this position, then what they will say? They will disrespect you.

Then The Brahmin replied: “are you blind or unable to see anything properly. It is not a calf, it’s a goat and I got it as a gift. Don’t know what is happening to everyone. Everybody saw the different things, one said the dog, the other said calf. Maybe all become mad.” The Brahmin becomes angry.

Then the second crook apologized to The Brahmin for his words and left the place.
The Brahmin became puzzled and started to thought that if he becomes mad or if the people he meet previously were mad. He did not understand anything. So, he again started walking.

When The Brahmin traveled a hundred meters, then again the third crook came according to their plan and said to The Brahmin: “are you a real brahmin?”

The Brahmin amazed to listen to this type of question and reply to him that why he is asking that type of question. The third book answered that being a holy man, how he can carry a pig?

But The Brahmin could not say anything to the crook and started to thought in his mind if it is a goat or anything else. How do the three different people see them as different animals?

Maybe this is nothing but a ghost. He lost his confidence and started to believe the words of three different people.

Thus, The Brahmin becomes scared and anxious too. So he threw the goat from his shoulder and ran away to his home and increased his speed of running as he can.

Then the third crook picked up the goat and his two friends also join to him and started laughing at the fool brahmin. They became so proud to make The Brahmin fool, and then they started their journey with the goat towards their destination to enjoy dinner.

So, the story of ‘The Brahmin And The Crooks’ ends here. Let’s know the moral of this story. What are the lessons learned from “The Panchatantra story of The Brahmin And The Crooks”?