Today we are learning about what happened to the reptiles ?
You may not believe this story but I can tell you it is true because I have been to pambu Patti, a village on the edge of the jungle it is on a cliff and the vast forest stretches below like a mossy green carpet . There are many kinds of people in the village dark, fair, Tall ,short they speak many languages some eat meat , some don't. Some prey in a small Temple at the edge of the forest. Others pray in a mosque some miles away .
My name is Prem and I leave many hundred miles away from pambupatti. I had heard about the village but I didn't never been there. Then last year something tribble happened. The people of my own village went mad for far away in a place they have never even been to a temple or mosque had been Burnt down and they went mad. They started fighting with one another. Some had to run away in the middle of the night. And at 3 in the morning as I live in my house , half awake to the sounds of hate and violence there was a fire many houses were burnt down in the Fire one of them was mine. I managed to grab a few clothes some coins my little Ganesh statue , and I ran! I ran for a day and night resting whenever my legs would not carry me any further I jumped on to a train, then on a bus no tickets never mind everyone seemed to be running. Finally, I found myself in pambupatti , and I saw some villagers gathered near a well I run to them and before I could say a thing , I fainted .
When I opened my eyes I saw and old man with white hair white beard and shining black eyes bending over me for the next few days he looked after me putting food in my mouth and bringing me sweet cool water from the stream he rubbed my fit gently and made the pain go away neighbour strangers everyone came to visit me.
Tell me grandfather I said to him one day I have never seen people like the villager here in my village people fight with those who pray to another God but here this seems a very strange place! .
Prem replied the old man I will tell you the story of pambupatti . You can take this story back to your village maybe it will heal sum of its wounds , and dry some of it sores .
Oh! , grandfather. I said anxiously , don't say that what I have seen in my village makes me burn with shame. I never never want to go back there.
But that's exactly why you must go back he said in a soft voice I kept quiet I didn't want to with argue with him, and I wanted to hear his story.
. Very , very long ago there were no animals in pambupatti, only Reptiles.
. They had a meeting every month. Their leader makara would chair the meeting.
It happened a long, long time ago he began so long ago that there were no school and no teachers children leave in caves with their parents and helped them to collect fruit and berries from the forest. At the time there were no tigers or panthers or elephants in pambupatti forest. There were only reptiles are snakes, crocodiles, turtles, lizards. And you know that a reptile has scales on it's body and it lays eggs. Every month the reptile of pambupatti had a big meeting. Everyone came the pretty excited snake this slow thoughtful tortoises , the clever quick lizards, and the moody crocodiles, grumpy because they were out of water. The president of this meeting was makara the biggest crocodile of the forest all the animals thought he was very important when someone is strong and powerful, you know it is difficult not to go along with what he says or does.
Now one day a strange thing happened it was a weak before one of the monthly meetings makara sent a letter to to the tortoises asking them not to go to the meeting ahistay . The big old star tortoise with black and yellow pictures on his shell, was very angry.
What does this mean? He shouted how dare they but not one of the tortoises had the coverage to attend the meeting they were so few The other so many!
Before the meeting the giant makara polished his teeth with the red flowers of the tree by the river till this sparkled everyone was waiting for him at the meeting place.
Brothers and sisters he began . All the reptiles even the beautiful king cobras stop it talking. Makara continued his speech. I have decided that we don't need the tortoises I have told them not to come today brothers and sisters came you tell me why we don't like the tortoises?
The reptiles look this way and that they felt very uncomfortable this snakes hissed anxiously, the lizards wriggled their tails , rhe crocodile opened their jaws even wider.