PANCHTANTRA
STORIES
PANDIT
SEVARAM
One day a Brahmin by the name of Sevaram asked Birbal
for help. He said that his forefathers were great
Sanskrit scholars and that people used to respectfully
refer to them as Panditji. He said that he had no
money nor need for wealth, he was content living
a simple life. But he had just one wish. He wished
people would refer to him as Panditji too. He asked
Birbal how he could achieve this.
Birbal said that
the task was fairly simple. If the Brahmin followed
his advice word for word, this task could be achieved.
Birbal advised the Brahmin to shout at anyone who
would call him Panditji from now on.
Now the children
who lived on the same street as the Brahmin did
not like him since he scolded them often. They were
just waiting for an opportunity to get back at him.
Birbal told the children that the Brahmin would
get really irritated if they would start calling
him Panditji. The children started calling him Panditji
and the Brahmin as advised by Birbal started shouting
at them. The children spread the word to all the
other children in the neighborhood that Sevaram
hated being called Panditji, so they in turn all
started calling him Panditji. After a while, Sevaram
got tired of scolding them but everyone already
was used to calling him Panditji. Hence the game
was over but the name stuck. |
