Some of you may be familiar with Punyakotis story.
Just a brief background..it is a story about a cow called Punyakoti who gets caught by a tiger who threatens to eat her. Punyakoti begs the tiger to let her go so that she can go home and bid her baby goodbye and request her friends to take care of him and she promises to return to the tiger. She tells the tiger that she has given him her word and that she never breaks her word. The tiger lets her go and she goes home, hugs her baby and kisses him goodbye. She tells her friends to take good care of the baby, to love him like their own and then she returns to the tiger. The tiger recognizes that she is a noble soul and lets her go back to her baby and they all live happily ever after.
When mommy tells me this story every night, she adds in bits about Punyakoti requesting her friends to take good care of her baby, to make idlis and dosas and pasta for her baby since he would miss that if his mommy went.
Last night when mommy was telling the story when she reached the part about how Punyakoti goes back to the tiger, I had a million dollar question...
If the tiger is hungry, why doesnt he eat the pasta and the idlis and the dosas that the friends make? Why does he have to eat Punyakoti????
Mommy was totally flummoxed! She hasnt come up with a good answer yet!
ps: If you can understand kannada, do see the video below. Its Punyakotis story in the form of a song. Mommy has such fond memories from her childhood when mamama would tell her and paapu this story and sing this song to them. She remembers cuddling in bed with her mommy and her sister and trying to stop the tears that would come when mamama would narate the part about Punyakoti bidding her soon to be orphaned baby goodbye.
2 comments:
Took me back to my childhood days..I had even acted in a play called punyakoti..
Vinaya: What part did you play? Punyakoti? Or the calf? Its a beautiful story isnt it? I still get goose bumps when i hear it.
-G
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