Inspirational English Story : Wise Magistrate
During the reign of King Veer,
there lived a wised magistrate. Haripant’s verdicts were always just and people
from all over vast kingdom came to him in order to settle their disputes. In the city where Haripant lived, there was
a greedy ghee merchant named Niranjan. He always kept twenty barrels of ghee.
Of these, fifteen would contain good quality ghee and the remaining would be
adulterated. He would mix the two and sell it. This went on for a long time,
till finally the people fed up of being cheated,
complained to Haripant.
Haripant had the ghee examined
and found to it be adulterated. He gave Niranjan a choice of punishment-drink
the five barrels of adulterated ghee from his shop, or receive a hundred
lashings, or pay a thousand gold coins to the treasury. Niranjan thought for a
while. Losing a thousand gold coins were too much and a hundred lashing too
painful. So he decided to drink the five barrels of ghee. Though Niranjan sold
adulterated goods in his shop, he made sure his own food was of the best
quality. So after drinking one barrel of ghee he began to feel sick. By the
second barrel, he was vomiting. At this point he decided to opt for the
lashings instead. But he was pampered and his body was unused to any harsh treatment. After ten lashes, He started
trembling and screamed. “I will pay the thousand gold coins!” And he handed
Them over.
So he ended up suffering all three punishments,
something he did not forget in a hurry and the people of the city got to use
only the best quality ghee in their
food from then on!
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