Rabbits are under the special protection of Moon God. You have crushed thousands of Rabbits to death on the way to lake. The little Rabbit said, “The Moon God is angry with you because you have brought your herd to his holy lake and have disturbed the peace. Chaturdanta confirmed him that he won’t be harmed in any way. He is only doing his job so you must not be angry with me”. Please consider that a messenger is never punished for what he has to say. The Rabbit replied, “Moon God has sent a message for you. The King of the Elephants said, “Why you have come here?” On hearing the Rabbit’s voice, Chaturdanta stopped for a while and replied,” Who are you? From where have you come?” The smart Rabbit answered, “I am a messenger sent to you by the Moon God”. Thus, he climbed up a hill and shouted, “O, King of the Elephants. Then he thought that how could he talk to the King of Elephants. When he saw the herd of Elephants returning from the lake, he realized that it was impossible to get near to them. The little Rabbit rushed towards the lake. The Rabbit King gave his approval to the idea. Suddenly, a little Rabbit derived a plan and said to the King, “Your Majesty, if you will send me as your messenger to the King of the Elephants, I might find a solution to this problem”. All the Rabbits underwent a thought process. I want all of you to think of a way to save our race”. We are in a critical need to avoid more deaths. They have killed thousands of our friends. In the meeting, the King said,” A herd of Elephants is passing through our area. The situation was getting severe, so the King of the Rabbits called up a meeting. Thousands of Rabbit got crushed under the heavy feet of the Elephants and many of them got wounded. The Elephants had to pass through this settlement of Rabbits. On the way to this lake, there was a settlement of Rabbits. This lake was full of water and never went dry even if it didn’t rain. He ordered all his followers to make their way towards the lake. The King Elephant got happy to hear this news. Fortunately, one of them found a large lake full of water in another jungle far away. The King Elephant considered the idea and asked the Elephants to go in different directions to find water. We have to find out water as soon as possible”.

If we will stay here soon many of us will die. So they approached their king and said, “You Majesty, as you know there is no water in our forest, many of the birds and animals have died due to thirst. The Elephants decided to take the matter to their king, Chaturdanta. The Elephants got worried that if they didn’t get water soon many of them would die of thirst. Many of the birds and the animals died of thirst. Once it so happened, that there was no rain for the whole year and the lake dried up. There was a big lake in the middle of the forest where all the animals used to go to drink water and to take a bath.

A mighty Elephant by the name of Chaturdanta was their king.

Once upon a time, there lived a herd of Elephants in a forest. This is another nice story from the Hitopadesha collection.

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