Dec 1955 – Chandamama Stories

18. The Comet

(Viagra-Dutt and Samarsen, who were running away from the City of Ruins, came across Sorcerer One-eye. Samarsen cleverly made it sound. His escape leaves Vyaghra-Dutt

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The Cat and The Meat

Goha, the witty man of Cairo, once bought three seers of meat and took it home. “I am going out now and shall be back

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Useless Attentions

A certain zamindar bought a fine Arab horse with a pedigree by paying a lot of money. His whole mind was so taken up with

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Faults In Others

BRAHMA, the Creator, called together all the creatures he had created to find out what improvements they would like. “Friends,” he said, addressing all creatures,

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Fatal Greed

A fox once made friends with a wolf and found that he had to play the part of a servant since the wolf was much

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The Penalty

Once a merchant started on a long journey with his goods loaded on a horse and a donkey. The donkey was overloaded, and it felt

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Impure

DHANA GUPTA earned crores. But he had to sin a lot to make all that money. Following in his footsteps, several other merchants earned lakhs.

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Lazy Bones

In a particular village, a wealthy man had a daughter named Sukumari. She was so hopelessly lazy that she never did a stroke of work

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An Original Verse

Serving a king is like walking the razor’s edge. King Bhoja, who was so very fond of Kalidas, the great poet, once fell out with

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In Search Of a Throne

Sudarshan of Malwa was exceedingly handsome, but he was utterly poor. He spent all his childhood at Banaras getting educated. When his education was finished,

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