Once upon a time, a King (may be of small state) went hunting and following the game, his entourage went so far that couldn’t get back home by the evening. As a result the King and his entourage had to camp in another town. Camp was setup and arrangements were made for the meal and the night stay of the King and everybody else.
But there was one problem, the King’s most beautiful queen was left behind in the Palace. He was so fond of her that he had never eaten without the queen joining him.
Luckily his most trusted and wisest minister accompanied the King. While the Royal meal was being prepared, the Minister remembered that the King wouldn’t have the meal without the Queen, in spite of the fact that he was starving after all day’s hunting trip. The minister found a solution. He invited an artist to quickly draw a picture of the queen. That was placed on the chair on the dinning table right opposite the King, where normally his Queen sat.
When the King saw the picture that had captured the spirit of the Queen, he was very pleased and his meal to his heart’s content. He also thanked his wise minister for the idea he had worked out.
After the meal, the King asked the picture to be brought to his tent. Now with his full stomach, when the King looked at the picture more carefully, he noticed that the artist had not only captured the beauty of the Queen but had also gone into the detail of showing one thigh of the queen slightly un-covered, where there was a small black beauty spot. The King remembered the mark, and was surprised that how true the picture was. But next moment, he became concerned that he was the only person, who had ever seen that part of the Queen’s body, and how could the artist from another state/town could know the secret. As a result he suspected that the Artist might have had the illicit relationship with the queen. As a result he kept thinking about it all night and by the morning he was blue with jealousy.
The first thing in the morning he called his minister and ordered the artist to be killed and his eyes those saw the most intimate part of the Queen to be brought to him. The minister understood everything and ordered his soldiers to go to the forest and get the eyeballs of a deer or another animal to calm the King. He also sent a message to the artist to stay away.
Well the King was brought tow eyeballs wrapped in a paper; he was content and went on with his life. But the story didn’t end there.
Years later, the Prince of the Kingdom son from his most favorite Queen had now grown up and he was also fond of hunting. One day he also went on a hunting spree in the jungle. This time Prince’s fate took a different turn, when he found himself alone and a lion chasing him in the jungle. The day was coming to an end and was getting dark, to save his life, he remembered that Lions couldn’t climb the trees. He ran to a tall tree and started to climb, but halfway, when he looked up, there he saw a big bear perched on the biggest branch of the tree. The prince froze on the spot didn’t know which way to go. The bear read the anxiety of the Prince and spoke to the Prince, not to be afraid. The bear added that for the very same reason, he was spending his nights on the tree. The Prince was invited to come to the same branch to spend the night.
Now the lion, having missed the Prince, decided to wait on the ground to until morning.
The bear was very kind, told the Prince that since they both had to spend the night there and had to watchful that none of them fall to the ground while they slept. The bear proposed that the Prince should sleep for the first part of the night, while the bear kept watch and to swap the roles after midnight.
When the Prince went to sleep and bear kept a watch. The lion spoke to the bear that the man race is never a friend of his own race leave aside to be a friend of the animals, and suggested the bear should push the Prince over and in return the Lion will leave the bear alone.
The bear replied that he couldn’t break the trust of the Prince to whom he had offered his friendship and wouldn’t accept Lion’s proposal. The Lion waited.
At midnight the bear and the prince swapped roles, and bear went to sleep. The crafty Lion tried the same trick on the Prince. This time, the Prince forgot the promise he had given to the bear and was tempted with the idea.
He tried to push the bear off the branch. The bear didn’t fall off the branch but was very very angry with the Prince. He said, ‘O Prince, ‘You were after all a selfish Man, and haven’t only broke my trust but you have stabbed the back of friendship.’ The bear blew his big breath into the Prince’s ear and the Prince lost his mind.
By this time it was morning, the King’s men were searching for the Prince and arrived there just in time to rescue the prince.
But had lost his mind and didn’t remember who he was or what happened to him? When the Prince was brought home, the King was totally baffled by seeing his only son; especially he was the only son from his favorite Queen. The King called for every available treatment for the Prince but was of no avail.
The King was very sad and was about to give up hope of getting his son normal again. Now his wise minister came to his rescue. He told the King that he knew a woman, who was willing to treat the Prince. But the woman’s conditions had to be met. The Prince’s bed should be placed in a tent, where this woman (curer) will come in purdah and treat the Prince. Nobody else was allowed in the tent during that time. Only concession was that King could sit outside the tent.
Next morning everything was arranged for the curer woman to come and treat the Prince and the King sat outside the tent in his chair.
The curer came in through the back opening of the tent and spoke to the Prince and related the whole story of that night what happened between the Prince and bear on that tree in the jungle. On hearing the full story, the Prince opened his eyes and remembered everything. The King had also heard everything, but according to the conditions of the curer woman, he was not allowed to the come into the tent or to speak to the woman. The woman left through the back opening as she had come in.
The Prince was fully cured and the King was jubilant. There were celebrations in the palace that evening.
As the King was not a thankless person, he asked his minister that he would like to invite this curer and offer some honours.
The curer accepted the invitation came again in a purdah to meet the King in the court that was set up in her honour. The King didn’t want only to honour the curer but was more curious to know that she knew the events in the jungle when nobody else had a clue.
He asked the curer. At that moment, the curer took the purdah and it was the same artist who had painted the picture of the Queen years ago. He faced the King and replied, ‘ O King, I used my same senses with which I saw the black beauty mark on your Queen’s thigh.’ The King remembered the whole event and profoundly apologized to the artist.