The Ballads Of Akbar And Birbal

30• The Strange Khichdi🍲⚱️🔥

Once when The King Akbar
Announced a superb news,
"I will reward money to the one
Strength of patience who will use."

"Just you will need to spend
A night at the royal lake,
In this cold and harsh winter
For that reward's sake."

People backed off, for it was
A night extremely cold,
The water in the lake was icy
No one can do what Akbar has told.

But an old and weak man
Agreed to be in the lake that night,
He needed money for her daughter
As she was going to be a bride.

He spent that night in the icy lake
A guard was there to examine,
But in the morning at the court
The situation was not very fine.

The guard said, "Your Majesty,
Last night this man was there,
In the water of the royal lake but
The task he did was not fair.

"As he used a lamp far away
Which was visible from the lake,
To get some heat all night
His claim is completely fake."

Akbar in anger said so,
"You go back to your way,
And don't show me your face again
It just lies whatever you'll say."

But in this Birbal found
Something really strange,
"A cold winter's night in the lake,
How far was the lamp's range."

So he went home and created a set

Khichdi he decided to prepare,
Down he fired the stove and
H

anged the pot high up in the air.

Some days passed but Birbal
Did not appear in the court,
Akbar asked him to come soon
But he was engaged in a special sport.

Whenever a guard comes to fetch
Birbal from his small house,
He was found to be cooking khichdi
That's what was told by his spouse.

Akbar fed up with this 'Khichdi'
Decided to visit Birbal himself,
While Birbal was still cooking
His Khichdi is on his special shelf.

Akbar astonished to see that
The pot was hanging so high,
"This khichdi is still not ready
And this is the reason why."

He asked Birbal about it
But Birbal's reply was rare,
"If the tiny lamp can heat the man
Why won't my khichdi be prepared?"

Akbar's eyes wide open
Realised his foolish deed,
He summoned the old man and
Gave him everything that he needs.

So that's how 'The Clever Birbal'
Proved himself the smartest of all,
And with his great skills, he won
The hearts of the crowd in the hall.

_____________________

Hey Readers,

Birbal's conclusions are not specia. Special are the ways he chooses to come to that result.

Heads off to this story that was crazily famous in my old days.