Reading Notes: Fables of Bidpai Part B

Reading Notes:

Bibliography: Fables of Bidpai, Maude Dutton

·      Two friends were journeying together.

·      They came across a broad stream at the foot of a hill.

·      They decided to stay there to rest.

·      After they ate and slept they woke up to leave and found a white stone with a letter on it.

·      The letter said, there was a banquet but they had to be bold and get it.

·      It told them to swim across the stream and swim to the other side. There they will find a lion carved out of marble. They had to carry that statue up the mountain without stopping.

·      This will supposedly bring them happiness.

·      One of them was delighted and he cried out of excitement.

·      The other was concerned that it wasn’t true.

·      The positive one was up to try it and said he would go alone.

·      They hugged and one rode off and the other took the task at hand.

·      He started swimming and he found himself in a whirlpool.

·      He made it to the other side and rested a few seconds before lifting the lion and running up the mountain.

·      He was standing in front of a beautiful city.

·      A ton of people were running out of the city to him out of excitement.

·      He became the king of the city because theirs had died and that’s how they decide a new one.

·      This was to make sure a king was fearless and of heart.

Two Travelers