![]() ![]() After narrating his dream, Akbar asked all his ministers to do the same and show him their loyalty. The next day, Akbar told his courtiers that he had a dream – according to it, if the ministers fetch an egg each from the royal pond, it will prove their loyalty towards him. As per the plan, all the ministers had to carry an egg each the following day, hidden inside their robes. He confided in all other ministers and shared his plan with them. Once King Akbar thought of playing a trick on his favourite minister, Birbal. The scholar felt ashamed of his claim and left with a heavy heart. The scholar mocked Birbal and said, “How can you be sure?” Birbal immediately replied, “I had only promised to answer one question, and therefore, I will not reply”. The scholar said, “Tell me Birbal, what came first, the chicken or the egg?” Birbal thought for a while and said, “Chicken came first”. The scholar asked Birbal, “Do you want to answer a hundred easy questions or one difficult question?” Birbal said that he wanted to answer the difficult one. Birbal accepted the challenge that the scholar had posed for him. Akbar called Birbal to the court and told him what the scholar claimed. The scholar told the king that he is the smartest and even Birbal would not be able to answer his questions. Once a scholar visited Akbar’s court with the thought of challenging Birbal’s intelligence. The tales of Birbal’s unparalleled wit and wisdom had reached faraway lands. Akbar knew that this could be no one else but Birbal, and he went to bring Birbal back to his court.Īlso Read: Children’s Stories by Sudha Murty 7. This pot was sent to the King, and he was told that the wit should only be removed without breaking the pot. After a month, the watermelon grew up to the size of the pot. Birbal took a pot and put a small watermelon in it without cutting it from its vines. Birbal offered to help, stating that he needs a month’s time. The villagers held a meeting to decide how to solve the king’s mystery. The news reached all the nearby villages, and to Birbal as well. Akbar thought of a trick to find Birbal – he made an announcement that whoever got him a pot full of wit would be given a pot filled with diamonds. The guards looked for Birbal in all directions, but all their efforts went to waste. One day, Akbar decided to send across his royal guards to find Birbal. ![]() As time passed, King Akbar started missing his favourite courtier. Birbal spent his days working at the farm. Heartbroken, Birbal left the kingdom and took refuge at a farmer’s house in a nearby village. Once upon a time, king Akbar got so mad at Birbal that he told Birbal to leave the kingdom and go away. If a poor man can stay warm by simply looking at the lamp burning at a distance, I can cook this khichadi the same way.” Akbar understood Birbal’s point and rewarded the poor man for completing the challenge. Akbar started laughing and said that was impossible. On being enquired, Birbal said, “I am cooking khichadi, my lord”. To his amusement, the King found Birbal sitting beside the fire with a pot hanging almost 6 feet above it. Birbal didn’t go to the court the next day. The poor man felt doomed and heart-broken. ![]() On learning this, the emperor said, “This man is not worthy of the reward as he could manage to stand in the lake because he was getting warmth from the lamp”. On being asked by the king how he could stand in freezing water, the man replied, “My lord, I kept looking at a lamp that was burning at a distance, and spent my entire night looking at it”. In the morning, the poor man was taken to court for the reward. Guarded by two royal guards, the poor man spent the entire night standing in the freezing water. Soon, Birbal found a poor man who agreed to undertake the challenge for the 1000 gold coins. Akbar promised a sum of 1000 gold coins to whoever could spend a night standing in the cold water of the lake. Birbal took that as a challenge and said that he would find someone who can do it. Akbar stopped and put his finger into the freezing water and immediately took it out saying, “I don’t think anyone can sustain a night in this cold water”. Once on a cold winter day, Akbar and Birbal were walking by a lake. ![]()
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