Akbar Birbal Story - Part 9
Akbar sometimes demanded strange things. One day he gave a bizarre order to Birbal to find him six biggest fools in their kingdom in a month’s time. Birbal respectfully agreed to Akbar’s order and left the place to carry out the order as directed.
As he was riding his horse, looking for people, first he met a man named Ramu who was sitting on a donkey and carrying some grass on his own head thiking that it would help share the load of the poor animal.
Then he met two people, Changu and Mangu, who were fighting because Changu said he will release his imaginary tiger on Mangu’s imaginary cow which they are going to get as a gift from the god.
In the evening Birbal met someone who was trying to find his lost ring in the lit area when actually the ring had fallen next to a faraway tree; but since it was quite dark there, the man thought of finding the ring in a lit area instead.
Birbal took the four of them to Akbar the next day. When Akbar asked who are the remaining two fools, Birbal pointed to himself and to Emperor Akbar for undertaking such an endeavor.
