Mother Sahori

Mother Sahori

Sahori was an old widow. For wealth, she just had one hundred gold coins. Being near to death old mother sahori thought of going on pilgrimage. She sewed her treasure of gold coins in a cloth pouch and closed with proper lac seal.

    Then she gave it to her neighborhood money lender for safe keeping saying, “Son, if I return I will take back my trust and pay you ten gold coins for your service. If I don’t return, the pouch is yours.”

    After the departure of mother Sahori the money lender drooled over the pouch of gold 100 coins. He hatched a plot and put in action.

  Mother Sahori returned from her pilgrimage and asked back her trust. The money lender duly handled her pouch.

 Back at home, She thought of giving 10gold coins to money lender as promised by her. She broke the seal and cut away threads. Sahori was shocked to find iron coins inside instead of gold ones. She run to the money lender with the pouch and complained. The money lender didn’t accept any responsibility Instead he demanded his fee of ten gold coins. 

 The old woman knew that the cheating trader would have to be taken to the court. She went to the king and told the entire story.

  The king summoned the money lender and asked him, “What have you say about the matter?”

  “I know anything my load! I was given a sealed pouch for safe keeping. I returned it intact. I am yet to be paid my fee even.”

   After hearing both the sides the king got the pouch minutely examined. It was found that the pouch was holed and then expertly darned, The king asked the old lady and the money lender to appear in his court two day later.

  Meanwhile, he summoned all the good darners of the town to his court and showed the old women’s pouch. One of the darners admitted having darned it for the money lender.

   Two days later the money lender and mother Sahori came to the court as ordered. The king gave the decision in favor of the old women. When the money lender protested the king confronted him with the darner. He accepted his guilt.

   The money lender had to return  all the gold coins to mother Sahori. He lost his ten coins as fine. At mother Sahori’s request the culprit was not sent to prison,

 MORAL: You can’t hide the truth for long because falsehood has no legs to stand upon. Sooner or later it is bound to fall flat.