Saturday, October 29, 2011

Story of Chandrahasa

                                             Story of Chandrahasa

Chandrahasa is the young prince of Kerala. He had lost his father in young age. After that , a maid was looking after him. But when she died, Chandrahasa is orphan with no one to look after. That time, at a festival Chandrahasa was singing a song. Hearing that, a fortune teller told that the boy will be the next king of state. The news spread.
It was heard by the minister of state, Dushtabuddhi. He had a son named Madan and a daughter named Vishaye. He had the ambition of making his son as king. The news made him restless. He ordered his guards to kill Chandrahasa. Likewise,they kidnapped him.
But they didn't have mind to kill Chandrahasa as he is very cute. So,they cut one finger from his foot which is having 6 fingers and produced it before the minister and claimed that they have killed him. But Chandrahasa was alive and was alone in forest. The king of neighbouring state who had come for hunting to forest, found Chandrahasa and had taken him to his state.
Chandrahasa was living there. Once, Dushtabuddhi had come to this state and saw Chandrahasa there. He was alarmed by this. He again decided to kill him. But now, he wrote a letter saying that guards must give visha (poison) to Chandrahasa. But the letter was received by his daughter , Vishaye. She read the letter and thought her father might have written just Visha instead of writing Vishaye.
Hence, she changed the letter . By seeing the letter, guards produced that to king Madan who is also son of Dushtabuddhi. Likewise, he got marriage to be happened. Dushtabuddhi returned and saw what had happened. Now he had no choice but to accept.

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