Wednesday, December 7, 2016

The punishments given for the crime

Long ago , in a village there was a merchant named Dhananjay . He had a grocery shop . He mainly sells ghee in the shop.

But he was a cheat . He was selling adulterated ghee in the shop. If he has 15 barrels of pure ghee , he was mixing impurities to them and making the barrels amount to 50 and was selling this ghee to customers who were coming to his shop.

Once , people sensed something fishy in his shop. Soon they caught his crime. They complained near the King against him.

Even King also convinced of Dhananjay's fault . He gave the verdict as Dhananjay is guilty and has to face the punishment. King gave Dhananjay 3 types of punishments to choose from . Out of them , for one he can undergo punishment .

The choices were ---------

1. Dhananjay has to drink ghee from 15 barrels of ghee from his shop.

2 . Dhananjay has to get 100 lashes from the whip.

3. Dhananjay has to pay 1000 gold coins for his fault and must give pure ghee from nowonwards.

Dhananjay thought for a moment. He thought Giving 1000 gold coins would be a huge sum for him to pay . 100 lashes from whip would be too painful. He concluded that drinking ghee would be fine for him and he said that he will undergo for first punishment.

Soon 15 barrels of ghee from Dhananjay's own shop were arranged . Dhananjay started to drink ghee . But soon he fell sick by drinking adulterated ghee. When he realised that he can't drink anymore ghee , he preferred 2nd punishment to undergo.

Soon whip was arranged and Dhananjay got ready to receive the lashes. But soon after receiving just 5 lashes , he laid down himself on ground and begged for mercy with the King and said that he is ready to pay 1000 gold coins to state.

Like this , Dhananjay received all the 3 punishments which were put infront of him . Finally he learnt a good lesson !

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