The Two Snake And The Princess (Panchatantra Stories In English)

The Two Snake And The Princess – Panchatantra Stories In English

The Two Snake And The Princess: A long time ago, there was a state, where reign the king Vikramaditya. He was very kind, and he always loved his vassals and always tried to take care of them.

So the people of Pratapgarh were very happy. The king had one and only son. So they always pampered their only son. His name was Vikram. He was growing up with time.

Everything was going normally but one day the son of the king felt very ill. Suddenly he became weak and thin day by day. Naturally, the king became tense with his son. He hired the most popular physician for his treatment, but he could not do anything for his son.

So the king again consulted other doctors from other states for the treatment of his son, but they also became failures. The health condition of the prince became deteriorated day by day.

His body became pale, and he became thin, but on the other hand, his belly fat increased abnormally. To see his health condition, the Prince also became very upset, and he lost his self-confidence, which was very annoying for him.

On the other side, he also could not tolerate the situation of his father. So, he decided that he will leave his palace even his reign the next morning.

So, according to his plan, the prince left his palace and started his journey to a new state. After completing the journey for a few days, the prince finally arrived at his neighbor’s kingdom.

In the time of the journey of the prince, he did not find any proper food, so, he became very much tired and felt so weak that he decided to spend his day in the temple.

Then the prince started to live in the temple and consumed whatever he got from the charity of the people who visited the temple.

The neighboring state of Pratapgarh where the prince Vikram arrived, was ruled by King Mahashok and the name of his state was Suryanagar. King Mahashok was very arrogant.

He had two daughters. He even did not care about his daughters also. The Mahashok always wanted commendation from the people.

His two daughters lived in another palace and the king Mahashok lived in another Palace. So his two daughters always come to the palace of the king to visit him every day.

The elder daughter of the king was very clever, and she knows what her father wanted to listen to her. So he always told his father that she enjoyed such a glamorous life only for her father, and she was grateful to him for this. So the king became very happy.

On the other hand, the young daughter was very honest. And she did not want to say anything. Which is not true, the younger daughter always told her father that he got this type of luxurious life due to her destiny.

The king did not happy to listen to that word from his younger daughter but did not say anything, one day he was very angry, and his younger daughter told the same thing that day also.

Thus, the King became angrier and ordered to his worker take out his younger daughter from his Palace and marry her to a stranger.

According to the order of the king, the worker also did the same work. They found the temple near the palace, and they found the Bikram and thought of him as a stranger, so married the Vikram and the princess.

After they are married, the prince and the princess plan to leave the place and live in another state. Vikram did not say anything to his wife about his past life because as he leads his life as a beggar. So he did not want to publish his past status and glamorous life to his wife.

So the newly married couple started their journey. In the path of the journey, suddenly the prince Vikram feels very tired and weak. So he requested his wife to bring some food and water for him as he did not eaten any food or consumed water for a long time.

Thus, he feels very hungry and thirsty too and due to the journey of a long time, he also became very tired.

To listen to his health condition, his wife became very sad and agreed to bring some food and water from the nearest market, and the prince sat down under a tree to take some rest.

So, his wife left him the place and went to the market to bring some food. And when she was a went to collect the food and water. Then he returned to the place where his husband took rest, suddenly she noticed that a snake was coming out from the mouth of his husband.

After seeing that strange incident, the princes become amazed. So she stopped walking, and then she noticed that the snake which was coming out of the mouth of her husband was interacting with another snake, which was living in the anthill, situated near the tree.

Then the snake who lived in the anthill asked the snake. Who lived in the stomach of the prince why he lived in the stomach of the prince while he already knows that if he eats the boiled water of cumin and mustard then he will die.

Then the snake who was coming out from the mouth of the prince. Became very angry and replied to the snake. Who lived in the anthill that why he lived in that anthill two prater two golden pots while he knew that if anybody poured hot oil on the anthill then he will also die.

After their conversation, the two snakes went to their place. The Princess listened to everything, and now she became aware of the disease of her husband. So she collected some cumin and mustard seeds and boiled that with water and gave the boiled water to her husband to drink.

After drinking the water, the prince becomes healthy, and he also feels energetic. It happened due to the death of that poisonous snake.

The princess told her husband that he listen that there were two golden pots at the bottom of the anthill. So she also brought some boiled oil to the anthill and the snake who lived in that anthill became dead and got two pots that were full of the gold coins.

After getting that golden coin. They became very happy, and then Vikram revealed his identity to his wife. He also explained why he left his palace and lived in the temple, and also thanked his wife. Because he became healthy, and it was only possible due to her contribution of his wife.

Then she blushed at him. Then the prince decided to return to their Palace. The king and the queen became very happy to get back to their healthy son with a beautiful daughter-in-law.

Then they welcome the newly married groom and The bride royally. They started to live their lives so happily.

So, the story of ‘The Two Snake And The Princess’ ends here. Let’s know the moral of this story. What do we learn from “The Panchatantra story of The Two Snake And The Princess”?