Continuing the Panchatantra tales in verse…
(So king Ping-a-laka settled down to hear
Dama-nak-a’s story, all about fear
And an unknown fear, as we all know
Must be faced in order for it to go)
And this dear friends is the tale we’ll hear
About the jackal and the drum he feared
A hungry jackal went in search of food
And came to a deserted battlefield
But loud strange sounds made him feel not so good
And he thought to run from the battlefield.
This story told in rhyme is a continuation of the first book of the Panchatantra, which as we know, consists of five books – Mitra-bhed: The Loss of Friends; Mitra-lābha or Mitra-samprāpti: The Gaining of Friends; Kākolūkīyam: War and Peace; Labdhapraṇāśam: Loss Of Gains; Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ: Ill-Considered Action / Rash deeds. The Monkey & The Wedge is the second of the stories contained within “Mitra-Bhed”.
So Dama-nak-a heard from Kara-tak
The story of the monkey and the wedge
How a merchant once began to build up
A temple of wood at his garden’s edge
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