PRINCESS ROSETTE
ONCE
upon a time there lived a King and Queen who had two beautiful sons and one
little daughter, who was so pretty that no one who saw her could help loving
her. When it was time for the christening of the Princess, the Queen--as she
always did--sent for all the fairies to be present at the ceremony, and
afterwards invited them to a splendid banquet.
When
it was over, and they were preparing to go away, the Queen said to them:
`Do
not forget your usual good custom. Tell me what is going to happen to Rosette.'
For
that was the name they had given the Princess.
But
the fairies said they had left their book of magic at home, and they would come
another day and tell her.
`Ah!'
said the Queen, `I know very well what that means--you have nothing good to
say; but at least I beg that you will not hide anything from me.'
So,
after a great deal of persuasion, they said:
`Madam,
we fear that Rosette may be the cause of great misfortunes to her brothers;
they may even meet with their death through her; that is all we have been able
to foresee about your dear little daughter. We are very sorry to have nothing
better to tell you.'
Then
they went away, leaving the Queen very sad, so sad that the King noticed it,
and asked her what was the matter.
The
Queen said that she had been sitting too near the fire, and had burnt all the
flax that was upon her distaff.
`Oh!
is that all?' said the King, and he went up into the garret and brought her
down more flax than she could spin in a hundred years. But the Queen still
looked sad, and the King asked her again what was the matter. She answered that
she had been walking by the river and had dropped one of her green satin
slippers into the water.
`Oh!
if that's all,' said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-makers in his
kingdom, and they very soon made the Queen ten thousand green satin slippers,
but still she looked sad. So the King asked her again what was the matter, and
this time she answered that in eating her porridge too hastily she had
swallowed her wedding-ring. But it so happened that the King knew better, for
he had the ring himself, and he said:
`Oh
I you are not telling me the truth, for I have your ring here in my purse.'
Then
the Queen was very much ashamed, and she saw that the King was vexed with her;
so she told him all that the fairies had predicted about Rosette, and begged
him to think how the misfortunes might be prevented.
Then
it was the King's turn to look sad, and at last he said:
`I
see no way of saving our sons except by having Rosette's head cut off while she
is still little.'
But
the Queen cried that she would far rather have her own head cut off, and that
he had better think of something else, for she would never consent to such a
thing. So they thought and thought, but they could not tell what to do, until
at last the Queen heard that in a great forest near the castle there was an old
hermit, who lived in a hollow tree, and that people came from far and near to
consult him; so she said:
`I
had better go and ask his advice; perhaps he will know what to do to prevent
the misfortunes which the fairies foretold.'
She
set out very early the next morning, mounted upon a pretty little white mule,
which was shod with solid gold, and two of her ladies rode behind her on
beautiful horses. When they reached the forest they dismounted, for the trees
grew so thickly that the horses could not pass, and made their way on foot to
the hollow tree where the hermit lived. At first when he saw them coming he was
vexed, for he was not fond of ladies; but when he recognised the Queen, he
said:
`You
are welcome, Queen. What do you come to ask of me?'
Then
the Queen told him all the fairies had foreseen for Rosette, and asked what she
should do, and the hermit answered that she must shut the Princess up in a
tower and never let her come out of it again. The Queen thanked and rewarded
him, and hastened back to the castle to tell the King. When he heard the news
he had a great tower built as quickly as possible, and there the Princess was
shut up, and the King and Queen and her two brothers went to see her every day
that she might not be dull. The eldest brother was called `the Great Prince,'
and the second `the Little Prince.' They loved their sister dearly, for she was
the sweetest, prettiest princess who was ever seen, and the least little smile
from her was worth more than a hundred pieces of gold. When Rosette was fifteen
years old the Great Prince went to the King and asked if it would not soon be
time for her to be married, and the Little Prince put the same question to the
Queen.
Their
majesties were amused at them for thinking of it, but did not make any reply,
and soon after both the King and the Queen were taken ill, and died on the same
day. Everybody was sorry, Rosette especially, and all the bells in the kingdom
were tolled.
Then
all the dukes and counsellors put the Great Prince upon a golden throne, and
crowned him with a diamond crown, and they all cried, `Long live the King!' And
after that there was nothing but feasting and rejoicing.
The
new King and his brother said to one another:
`Now
that we are the masters, let us take our sister out of that dull tower which
she is so tired of.'
They
had only to go across the garden to reach the tower, which was very high, and
stood up in a corner. Rosette was busy at her embroidery, but when she saw her
brothers she got up, and taking the King's hand cried:
`Good
morning, dear brother. Now that you are King, please take me out of this dull
tower, for I am so tired of it.'
Then
she began to cry, but the King kissed her and told her to dry her tears, as
that was just what they had come for, to take her out of the tower and bring
her to their beautiful castle, and the Prince showed her the pocketful of sugar
plums he had brought for her, and said:
`Make
haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon the King will
arrange a grand marriage for you.'
When
Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, with green grass
and sparkling fountains, she was so astonished that not a word could she say,
for she had never in her life seen anything like it before. She looked about
her, and ran hither and thither gathering fruit and flowers, and her little dog
Frisk, who was bright green all over, and had but one ear, danced before her,
crying `Bow-wow-wow,' and turning head over heels in the most enchanting way.
Everybody
was amused at Frisk's antics, but all of a sudden he ran away into a little
wood, and the Princess was following him, when, to her great delight, she saw a
peacock, who was spreading his tail in the sunshine. Rosette thought she had
never seen anything so pretty. She could not take her eyes off him, and there
she stood entranced until the King and the Prince came up and asked what was amusing
her so much. She showed them the peacock, and asked what it was, and they
answered that it was a bird which people sometimes ate.
`What!'
said the Princess, `do they dare to kill that beautiful creature and eat it? I
declare that I will never marry any one but the King of the Peacocks, and when
I am Queen I will take very good care that nobody eats any of my subjects.'
At
this the King was very much astonished.
`But,
little sister,' said he, `where shall we find the King of the Peacocks?'
`Oh!
wherever you like, sire,' she answered, `but I will never marry any one else.'
After
this they took Rosette to the beautiful castle, and the peacock was brought
with her, and told to walk about on the terrace outside her windows, so that she
might always see him, and then the ladies of the court came to see the
Princess, and they brought her beautiful presents--dresses and ribbons and
sweetmeats, diamonds and pearls and dolls and embroidered slippers, and she was
so well brought up, and said, `Thank you!' so prettily, and was so gracious,
that everyone went away delighted with her.
Meanwhile
the King and the Prince were considering how they should find the King of the
Peacocks, if there was such a person in the world. And first of all they had a
portrait made of the Princess, which was so like her that you really would not
have been surprised if it had spoken to you. Then they said to her:
`Since
you will not marry anyone but the King of the Peacocks, we are going out
together into the wide world to search for him. If we find him for you we shall
be very glad. In the meantime, mind you take good care of our kingdom.'
Rosette
thanked them for all the trouble they were taking on her account, and promised
to take great care of the kingdom, and only to amuse herself by looking at the
peacock, and making Frisk dance while they were away.
So
they set out, and asked everyone they met--
`Do
you know the King of the Peacocks?'
But
the answer was always, `No, no.'
Then
they went on and on, so far that no one has ever been farther, and at last they
came to the Kingdom of the Cockchafers.
They
had never before seen such a number of cockchafers, and the buzzing was so loud
that the King was afraid he should be deafened by it. He asked the most
distinguished-looking cockchafer they met if he knew where they could find the
King of the Peacocks.
`Sire,'
replied the cockchafer, `his kingdom is thirty thousand leagues from this; you
have come the longest way.'
`And
how do you know that?' said the King.
`Oh!'
said the cockchafer, `we all know you very well, since we spend two or three
months in your garden every year.'
Thereupon
the King and the Prince made great friends with him, and they all walked
arm-in-arm and dined together, and afterwards the cockchafer showed them all
the curiosities of his strange country, where the tiniest green leaf costs a
gold piece and more. Then they set out again to finish their journey, and this
time, as they knew the way, they were not long upon the road. It was easy to
guess that they had come to the right place, for they saw peacocks in every
tree, and their cries could be heard a long way off:
When
they reached the city they found it full of men and women who were dressed entirely
in peacocks' feathers, which were evidently thought prettier than anything
else.
They
soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little golden carriage
which glittered with diamonds, and was drawn at full speed by twelve peacocks.
The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the Peacocks was
as handsome as possible. He had curly golden hair and was very pale, and he
wore a crown of peacocks' feathers.
When
he saw Rosette's brothers he knew at once that they were strangers, and
stopping his carriage he sent for them to speak to him. When they had greeted
him they said:
`Sire,
we have come from very far away to show you a beautiful portrait.'
So
saying they drew from their travelling bag the picture of Rosette.
The
King looked at it in silence a long time, but at last he said:
`I
could not have believed that there was such a beautiful Princess in the world!'
`Indeed,
she is really a hundred times as pretty as that,' said her brothers.
`I
think you must be making fun of me,' replied the King of the Peacocks.
`Sire,'
said the Prince, `my brother is a King, like yourself. He is called ``the
King,'' I am called ``the Prince,'' and that is the portrait of our sister, the
Princess Rosette. We have come to ask if you would like to marry her. She is as
good as she is beautiful, and we will give her a bushel of gold pieces for her
dowry.'
`Oh!
with all my heart,' replied the King, `and I will make her very happy. She
shall have whatever she likes, and I shall love her dearly; only I warn you
that if she is not as pretty as you have told me, I will have your heads cut
off.'
`Oh!
certainly, we quite agree to that,' said the brothers in one breath.
`Very
well. Off with you into prison, and stay there until the Princess arrives,'
said the King of the Peacocks.
And
the Princes were so sure that Rosette was far prettier than her portrait that
they went without a murmur. They were very kindly treated, and that they might
not feel dull the King came often to see them. As for Rosette's portrait that
was taken up to the palace, and the King did nothing but gaze at it all day and
all night.
As
the King and the Prince had to stay in prison, they sent a letter to the
Princess telling her to pack up all her treasures as quickly as possible, and
come to them, as the King of the Peacocks was waiting to marry her; but they
did not say that they were in prison, for fear of making her uneasy.
When
Rosette received the letter she was so delighted that she ran about telling
everyone that the King of the Peacocks was found, and she was going to marry
him.
Guns
were fired, and fireworks let off. Everyone had as many cakes and sweetmeats as
he wanted. And for three days everybody who came to see the Princess was
presented with a slice of bread-and-jam, a nightingale's egg, and some
hippocras. After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls
among them, and left her brother's kingdom to the care of the wisest old men of
the city, telling them to take charge of everything, not to spend any money,
but save it all up until the King should return, and above all, not to forget
to feed her peacock. Then she set out, only taking with her her nurse, and the
nurse's daughter, and the little green dog Frisk.
They
took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel of gold pieces,
and enough dresses to last the Princess ten years if she wore two every day,
and they did nothing but laugh and sing. The nurse asked the boatman:
`Can
you take us, can you take us to the kingdom of the peacocks?'
But
he answered:
`Oh
no! oh no!'
Then
she said:
`You
must take us, you must take us.'
And
he answered:
`Very
soon, very soon.'
Then
the nurse said:
`Will
you take us? will you take us?'
And
the boatman answered:
`Yes,
yes.'
Then
she whispered in his ear:
`Do
you want to make your fortune?'
And
he said:
`Certainly
I do.' `I can tell you how to get a bag of gold,' said she.
`I
ask nothing better,' said the boatman.
`Well,'
said the nurse, `to-night, when the Princess is asleep, you must help me to
throw her into the sea, and when she is drowned I will put her beautiful
clothes upon my daughter, and we will take her to the King of the Peacocks, who
will be only too glad to marry her, and as your reward you shall have your boat
full of diamonds.'
The
boatman was very much surprised at this proposal, and said: `But what a pity to
drown such a pretty Princess!'
However,
at last the nurse persuaded him to help her, and when the night came and the
Princess was fast asleep as usual, with Frisk curled up on his own cushion at
the foot of her bed, the wicked nurse fetched the boatman and her daughter, and
between them they picked up the Princess, feather bed, mattress, pillows,
blankets and all, and threw her into the sea, without even waking her. Now,
luckily, the Princess's bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix feathers, which
are very rare, and have the property of always floating upon water, so Rosette
went on swimming about as if she had been in a boat. After a little while she
began to feel very cold, and turned round so often that she woke Frisk, who
started up, and, having a very good nose, smelt the soles and herrings so close
to him that he began to bark. He barked so long and so loud that he woke all
the other fish, who came swimming up round the Princess's bed, and poking at it
with their great heads. As for her, she said to herself:
`How
our boat does rock upon the water! I am really glad that I am not often as
uncomfortable as I have been to-night.'
The
wicked nurse and the boatman, who were by this time quite a long way off, heard
Frisk barking, and said to each other:
`That
horrid little animal and his mistress are drinking our health in sea-water now.
Let us make haste to land, for we must be quite near the city of the King of
the Peacocks.'
The
King had sent a hundred carriages to meet them, drawn by every kind of strange
animal. There were lions, bears, wolves, stags, horses, buffaloes, eagles, and
peacocks. The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys,
which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other
charming tricks. Their, harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles,
and behind the carriage walked sixty beautiful ladies chosen by the King to
wait upon Rosette and amuse her.
The
nurse had taken all the pains imaginable to deck out her daughter. She put on her
Rosette's prettiest frock, and covered her with diamonds from head to foot. But
she was so ugly that nothing could make her look nice, and what was worse, she
was sulky and ill-tempered, and did nothing but grumble all the time.
When
she stepped from the boat and the escort sent by the King of the Peacocks
caught sight of her, they were so surprised that they could not say a single
word.
`Now
then, look alive,' cried the false Princess. `If you don't bring me something
to eat I will have all your heads cut off!'
Then
they whispered one to another:
`Here's
a pretty state of things! she is as wicked as she is ugly. What a bride for our
poor King! She certainly was not worth bringing from the other end of the
world!'
But
she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all would give slaps
and pinches to everyone she could reach.
As
the procession was so long it advanced but slowly, and the nurse's daughter sat
up in her carriage trying to look like a Queen. But the peacocks, who were
sitting upon every tree waiting to salute her, and who had made up their minds
to cry, `Long live our beautiful Queen!' when they caught sight of the false
bride could not help crying instead:
`Oh!
how ugly she is!'
Which
offended her so much that she said to the guards:
`Make
haste and kill all these insolent peacocks who have dared to insult me.'
But
the peacocks only flew away, laughing at her.
The
rogue of a boatman, who noticed all this, said softly to the nurse:
`This
is a bad business for us, gossip; your daughter ought to have been prettier.'
But
she answered:
`Be
quiet, stupid, or you will spoil everything.'
Now
they told the King that the Princess was approaching.
`Well,'
said he, `did her brothers tell me truly? Is she prettier than her portrait?'
`Sire,'
they answered, `if she were as pretty that would do very well.'
`That's
true,' said the King; `I for one shall be quite satisfied if she is. Let us go
and meet her.' For they knew by the uproar that she had arrived, but they could
not tell what all the shouting was about. The King thought he could hear the
words:
`How
ugly she is! How ugly she is!' and he fancied they must refer to some dwarf the
Princess was bringing with her. It never occurred to him that they could apply
to the bride herself.
The
Princess Rosette's portrait was carried at the head of the procession, and
after it walked the King surrounded by his courtiers. He was all impatience to
see the lovely Princess, but when he caught sight of the nurse's daughter he
was furiously angry, and would not advance another step. For she was really
ugly enough to have frightened anybody.
`What!'
he cried, `have the two rascals who are my prisoners dared to play me such a trick
as this? Do they propose that I shall marry this hideous creature? Let her be
shut up in my great tower, with her nurse and those who brought her here; and
as for them, I will have their heads cut off.'
Meanwhile
the King and the Prince, who knew that their sister must have arrived, had made
themselves smart, and sat expecting every minute to be summoned to greet her.
So when the gaoler came with soldiers, and carried them down into a black
dungeon which swarmed with toads and bats, and where they were up to their
necks in water, nobody could have been more surprised and dismayed than they
were.
`This
is a dismal kind of wedding,' they said; `what can have happened that we should
be treated like this? They must mean to kill us.'
And
this idea annoyed them very much. Three days passed before they heard any news,
and then the King of the Peacocks came and berated them through a hole in the
wall.
`You
have called yourselves King and Prince,' he cried, `to try and make me marry
your sister, but you are nothing but beggars, not worth the water you drink. I
mean to make short work with you, and the sword is being sharpened that will
cut off your heads!'
`King
of the Peacocks,' answered the King angrily, `you had better take care what you
are about. I am as good a King as yourself, and have a splendid kingdom and
robes and crowns, and plenty of good red gold to do what I like with. You are
pleased to jest about having our heads cut off; perhaps you think we have
stolen something from you?'
At
first the King of the Peacocks was taken aback by this bold speech, and had
half a mind to send them all away together; but his Prime Minister declared
that it would never do to let such a trick as that pass unpunished, everybody
would laugh at him; so the accusation was drawn up against them, that they were
impostors, and that they had promised the King a beautiful Princess in marriage
who, when she arrived, proved to be an ugly peasant girl.
This
accusation was read to the prisoners, who cried out that they had spoken the
truth, that their sister was indeed a Princess more beautiful than the day, and
that there was some mystery about all this which they could not fathom.
Therefore they demanded seven days in which to prove their innocence, The King
of the Peacocks was so angry that he would hardly even grant them this favour,
but at last he was persuaded to do so.
While
all this was going on at court, let us see what had been happening to the real
Princess. When the day broke she and Frisk were equally astonished at finding
themselves alone upon the sea, with no boat and no one to help them. The
Princess cried and cried, until even the fishes were sorry for her.
`Alas!'
she said, `the King of the Peacocks must have ordered me to be thrown into the
sea because he had changed his mind and did not want to marry me. But how
strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we should have been
so happy together!'
And
then she cried harder than ever, for she could not help still loving him. So
for two days they floated up and down the sea, wet and shivering with the cold,
and so hungry that when the Princess saw some oysters she caught them, and she
and Frisk both ate some, though they didn't like them at all. When night came the
Princess was so frightened that she said to Frisk:
`Oh!
Do please keep on barking for fear the soles should come and eat us up!'
Now
it happened that they had floated close in to the shore, where a poor old man
lived all alone in a little cottage. When he heard Frisk's barking he thought
to himself:
`There
must have been a shipwreck!' (for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance),
and he went out to see if he could be of any use. He soon saw the Princess and
Frisk floating up and down, and Rosette, stretching out her hands to him,
cried:
`Oh!
Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!'
THE
BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN
THE
DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS
SORIA
MORIA CASTLE-by Andrew Lang
THE PRINCESS MAY BLOSSOM- by Andrew Lang
मैं तुम सब की आत्मा अनंत अंतर्यामी हूं।
मैं ही सब में सर्व श्रेष्ठ हूं- Yjur-Veda
मैं गुरुओं का भी गुरु हूं- Rig-Veda
मैं वायु के समान संसार रूप शरीर में प्राण हूं- Rig-Veda
मैं तुम सब का अमृत हूं- Rig -Veda
मैं ही तुम सब का पिता हूं- Rig-Veda
मैं तुम्हारा शासक हूं- Rig Veda
मैं तुम्हारे समीप ही हूं- Rig Veda
मैं ही अंगों का रस अङ्गिरस हूं-Rig Veda
मैं ही सत्या का रक्षक हूं- Rig Veda
मैं ही सभी ऐश्वर्यों का पर ऐश्वर्य रूप परम धन हूं Rigved
I Am
Ancestor of all Ancestors -Rigved - मैं
ऋषियों का पुर्वज हूं
6 Feet land A Hindi Story of Leo Tolstoy- Hindi दो बहनों कि कथा
श्रवण और कालु किसान -story in Hindi
रीक्ष का शिकार story of
Leo-Tolstoy Hindi
परमेश्वर ने दर्शन देने का वादा किया
कृष्ण और पांडव के स्वर्गारोहण की कथा
सृष्टि के प्रारंभ में मानव एवं सृष्टि उत्पत्ति
अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तल संक्षिप्त कथावस्तु
महाकविकालिदासप्रणीतम् - अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम् `- भूमिका
वैराग्य
संदीपनी गोस्वामितुलसीदासकृत हिंदी
अग्नि
सुक्तम् - अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवमृत्विजम्
S’rimad
Devî Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK
Chapter
XV-XVI-XVII-XVIII-XIX-XX-XXI-XII
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter XIII-XIV
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter XI-XII
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter IX-X
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter VII-VIII
S’rimad Devî Bhâgavatam
THE FIRST BOOK Chapter V-VI
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter III-IV
S’rimad Devî
Bhâgavatam THE FIRST BOOK Chapter I-II
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP -16,17,18
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. XV.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. XIV.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. XIII.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. XII.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. XI.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. X
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. IX
VISHNU PURANA. - BOOK
III. CHAP. VIII
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. VII.
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. VI
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. V
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III. CHAP. IV
VISHNU PURANA. - BOOK
III.- CHAP. III
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK III.- CHAP. II.
चंद्रकांता
(उपन्यास) पहला अध्याय : देवकीनन्दन खत्री
खूनी औरत का
सात खून (उपन्यास) : किशोरी लाल गोस्वामी
ब्राह्मण की
बेटी : शरतचंद्र चट्टोपाध्याय (बांग्ला उपन्यास)
SELF-SUGGESTION AND
THE NEW HUNA THEORY OF MESMERISM AND HYPNOSIS – chapter-1, BY- MAX FREEDOM LONG
VISHNU PURAN-BOOK I
- CHAPTER 11-22
VISHNU PURANA. -
BOOK I. CHAP. 1. to 10
THE ROLE OF PRAYER.
= THOUGHT: CREATIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE. MEDITATION EXERCISE.
HIGHER REASON AND
JUDGMENT= CONQUEST OF FEAR.
QUEEN CHUNDALAI, THE
GREAT YOGIN
THE POWER OF
DHARANA, DHIYANA, AND SAMYAMA YOGA.
THE POWER OF THE
PRANAYAMA YOGA.
KUNDALINI,
THE MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE.
TO THE KUNDALINI—THE
MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE.
Yoga Vashist part-1
-or- Heaven Found by Rishi Singh Gherwal
Shakti and Shâkta
-by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe),
Mahanirvana Tantra-
All- Chapter -1 Questions relating to
the Liberation of Beings
Tantra
of the Great Liberation
श्वेतकेतु और
उद्दालक, उपनिषद की कहानी, छान्द्योग्यापनिषद,
GVB THE UNIVERSITY OF VEDA
यजुर्वेद
मंत्रा हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित, प्रथम अध्याय 1-10,
GVB THE UIVERSITY OF VEDA
उषस्ति की
कठिनाई, उपनिषद की कहानी, आपदकालेमर्यादानास्ति,
_4 -GVB the uiversity of veda
वैराग्यशतकम्, योगी
भर्तृहरिकृत, संस्कृत काव्य, हिन्दी
व्याख्या, भाग-1, gvb the university of Veda
G.V.B. THE
UNIVERSITY OF VEDA ON YOU TUBE
इसे भी पढ़े-
इन्द्र औ वृत्त युद्ध- भिष्म का युधिष्ठिर को उपदेश
इसे भी पढ़े
- भाग- ब्रह्मचर्य वैभव
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इसे भी पढ़े-
भाग -2, ब्रह्मचर्य की प्राचीनता
वैदिक इतिहास
संक्षीप्त रामायण की कहानीः-
वैदिक ऋषियों
का सामान्य परिचय-1
वैदिक इतिहास
महाभारत की सुक्ष्म कथाः-
वैदिक ऋषियों
का सामान्य परिचय-2 –वैदिक ऋषि अंगिरस
वैदिक
विद्वान वैज्ञानिक विश्वामित्र के द्वारा अन्तरिक्ष में स्वर्ग की स्थापना
राजकुमार और
उसके पुत्र के बलिदान की कहानीः-
पुरुषार्थ और विद्या- ब्रह्मज्ञान
संस्कृत के अद्भुत सार गर्भित विद्या श्लोक हिन्दी अर्थ सहित
श्रेष्ट
मनुष्य समझ बूझकर चलता है"
पंचतंत्र- कहानि क्षुद्रवुद्धि गिदण की
कनफ्यूशियस के शिष्य चीनी विद्वान के शब्द। लियोटालस्टा
कहानी माधो चमार की-लियोटलस्टाय
पर्मार्थ कि यात्रा के सुक्ष्म सोपान
जीवन संग्राम -1, मिर्जापुर का परिचय
When
he heard her cry out so piteously he was very sorry for her, and ran back into
his house to fetch a long boat-hook. Then he waded into the water up to his
chin, and after being nearly drowned once or twice he at last succeeded in
getting hold of the Princess's bed and dragging it on shore.
Rosette
and Frisk were joyful enough to find themselves once more on dry land, and the
Princess thanked the old man heartily; then, wrapping herself up in her
blankets, she daintily picked her way up to the cottage on her little bare
feet. There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old box
his wife's dress and shoes, which the Princess put on, and thus roughly clad
looked as charming as possible, and Frisk danced his very best to amuse her.
The
old man saw that Rosette must be some great lady, for her bed coverings were
all of satin and gold. He begged that she would tell him all her history, as
she might safely trust him. The Princess told him everything, weeping bitterly
again at the thought that it was by the King's orders that she had been thrown
overboard.
`And
now, my daughter, what is to be done?' said the old man. `You are a great
Princess, accustomed to fare daintily, and I have nothing to offer you but
black bread and radishes, which will not suit you at all. Shall I go and tell
the King of the Peacocks that you are here? If he sees you he will certainly
wish to marry you.'
`Oh
no!' cried Rosette, `he must be wicked, since he tried to drown me. Don't let
us tell him, but if you have a little basket give it to me.'
The
old man gave her a basket, and tying it round Frisk's neck she said to him: `Go
and find out the best cooking-pot in the town and bring the contents to me.'
Away
went Frisk, and as there was no better dinner cooking in all the town than the
King's, he adroitly took the cover off the pot and brought all it contained to
the Princess, who said:
`Now
go back to the pantry, and bring the best of everything you find there.'
So
Frisk went back and filled his basket with white bread, and red wine, and every
kind of sweetmeat, until it was almost too heavy for him to carry.
When
the King of the Peacocks wanted his dinner there was nothing in the pot and
nothing in the pantry. All the courtiers looked at one another in dismay, and
the King was terribly cross.
`Oh
well! `he said, `if there is no dinner I cannot dine, but take care that plenty
of things are roasted for supper.'
When
evening came the Princess said to Frisk:
`Go
into the town and find out the best kitchen, and bring me all the nicest
morsels that are being roasted upon the spit.'
Frisk
did as he was told, and as he knew of no better kitchen than the King's, he
went in softly, and when the cook's back was turned took everything that was
upon the spit, As it happened it was all done to a turn, and looked so good
that it made him hungry only to see it. He carried his basket to the Princess,
who at once sent him back to the pantry to bring all the tarts and sugar plums
that had been prepared for the King's supper.
The
King, as he had had no dinner, was very hungry and wanted his supper early, but
when he asked for it, lo and behold it was all gone, and he had to go to bed
half-starved and in a terrible temper. The next day the same thing happened,
and the next, so that for three days the King got nothing at all to eat,
because just when the dinner or the supper was ready to be served it
mysteriously disappeared. At last the Prime Minister began to be afraid that
the King would be starved to death, so he resolved to hide himself in some dark
corner of the kitchen, and never take his eyes off the cooking-pot. His
surprise was great when he presently saw a little green dog with one ear slip
softly into the kitchen, uncover the pot, transfer all its contents to his
basket, and run off. The Prime Minister followed hastily, and tracked him all
through the town to the cottage of the good old man; then he ran back to the
King and told him that he had found out where all his dinners and suppers went.
The King, who was very much astonished, said he should like to go and see for
himself. So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of
archers, and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess
finishing his dinner.
The
King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and Frisk also.
When
they were brought back to the palace some one told the King, who said:
`To-day
is the last day of the respite granted to those impostors; they shall have
their heads cut off at the same time as these stealers of my dinner.' Then the
old man went down on his knees before the King and begged for time to tell him
everything. While he spoke the King for the first time looked attentively at
the Princess, because he was sorry to see how she cried, and when he heard the
old man saying that her name was Rosette, and that she had been treacherously
thrown into the sea, he turned head over heels three times without stopping, in
spite of being quite weak from hunger, and ran to embrace her, and untied the
ropes which bound her with his own hands, declaring that he loved her with all
his heart.
Messengers
were sent to bring the Princes out of prison, and they came very sadly,
believing that they were to be executed at once: the nurse and her daughter and
the boatman were brought also. As soon as they came in Rosette ran to embrace
her brothers, while the traitors threw themselves down before her and begged
for mercy. The King and the Princess were so happy that they freely forgave
them, and as for the good old man he was splendidly rewarded, and spent the
rest of his days in the palace. The King of the Peacocks made ample amends to
the King and Prince for the way in which they had been treated, and did
everything in his power to show how sorry he was.
The nurse restored to Rosette all her dresses and jewels, and the bushel of gold pieces; the wedding was held at once, and they all lived happily ever after--even to Frisk, who enjoyed the greatest luxury, and never had anything worse than the wing of a partridge for dinner all the rest of his life.
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