Panchatantra

Panchatantra: Numskull and the Rabbit

Panchatantra is an anonymous collection of animal fables, probably compiled before AD 500. The work was intended as a manual for the instruction of sons of the royalty. The fables are in prose, with interspersions of aphoristic verse. A variant spelling is Pancatantra.

The lesson to learn from this story is to always try to see the repercussions of your actions, if not they will find the down fall of you. It’s about a lion that eats all the animals in his kingdom without remorse. This story is a fable, which has many different lessons to tell to a king. This story says that if an opponent is not compared to one's own, then you can fall, also to never rush into battle. A deal is made between the king and the animals, and an animal is sent to the lion each day to be eaten, one day a rabbit is sent to the lion and he tricks the lion into falling to his death. This little story tells a king that a good fortress will overcome many foes. A king who madly butchers men, There lives as little reconed as lives of goats, has one square meal, but never has a second. A warrior falling to compare two hosts, in mad desire for battle, plunges like a moth headforemost into fire. These parables or stories can attribute to a well governed kingdom. This story tells the king that if he kills his loyal subjects he will never have enough when he really needs them. A single archer from a wall A hundred foes forefends; and so the military art a fortress recommends. If these stories are applied by a king then his reign will live forever.