On Thursday 11 Sep 2008 1:39:01 pm Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > There is/was a story in the Panchatantra about four students who each > > possessed special powers. They come across the skeleton/few bones of a > > tiger, and using all their powers, bring it to life. > > > > Is that something you can use? > > Actually, I think there were five students. Four apparently smart and > one not so smart. The not so smart climbed a tree while the smarties > brought the tiger back to life and lived to tell the tale. :-) > > Venkat
Indian folk tales seem to be full of inanimate objects coming to life (or revealing the life they have in them) Someone already mentioned "Narasimha" the man lion who appears out of a pillar. I recall the story of a rishi who caught a mouse and made a little girl whom he brought up as daughter. He wanted his daughter to marry the best and he offers her the sun to marry - but the sun says that clouds that can cover the sun are more powerful. The clouds say that the wind that blows them is more powerful. The wind says that mounatins are more powerful, and finally the mountain says that the mouse who burrows into his is most powerful. The girl falls in love with the mouse and asks her father to change her back into a mouse so that she can marry her love. I think the story was meant to be some kind of illustration of the workings of karma. shiv
