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in the kingdom of fools is a Kannada folktale from A.K. Ramanujan folktales from India it is about a Kingdom which was done by the foolish king one day upon seeing that the people of the kingdom worked in the night and slept in the day the signed and his discipline were astonished
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There was a kingdom of fools. In this kingdom both the
king and the minister were idiots. They reversed
everything and denied justice to their people. They
changed day into night and night into day. They ordered
their people to sleep during day and work only after
dark. Anyone who disobeyed this order would be put to
death. The people did accordingly.
One day, two men, a guru and his disciple visited the
kingdom and found everything reverse. They were
surprised to see people sleep in the broad daylight. And
when darkness spread, everyone became active.
Their surprise doubled when they went to the market
and found that everything cost the same, a single judge.
The guru and his disciples were happy because the
system allowed them to buy all the food they wanted for
a rupee.
The guru was a wise person. He told his disciples that it
would not be safe for them to stay in the kingdom of
fools. But the disciple was not ready to leave the placebecause good and cheap food was available there. So,
the guru left the kingdom and the disciple stayed on.
Being a great foodie, he ate his fill every day and
became fat in a few days.
One day, a thief broke into a rich merchant’s house by
making a big hole in the wall. But as he was going out
with the stolen things, the wall of the old house
collapsed on his head and killed him on the spot. The
brother of the thief came running to the king and
pleaded him to punish the merchant for not building a
good and strong wall. The merchant was brought before
the king.
The king heard the case and found him (merchant)
guilty of the thief s spot death. But the merchant put the
blame on the bricklayer who had built the wall. The
bricklayer pleaded the king to punish the dancing girl
who distracted his attention by going up and down that
street all day with her anklets jingling. The dancing girl,
now an old woman was brought to the court. She put the
blame on the goldsmith.
She told the king that she had given some gold to the
goldsmith to make some jewelry for her. But he delayed
the work and made her walk up and down to his house
several times. The goldsmith was produced before the
king. After hearing the accusation against him, he said
that he had to attend to a rich merchant’s orders first as
there was a wedding ceremony in his family.It was, therefore, he made the dancing girl come to his
door many times. The king asked the name of the
merchant. He was none other than the merchant whose
wall had fallen. The merchant blamed his father who
had ordered the jewelry. But the father was no more in
this world, so it was decided to punish the merchant in
his place. A new stake was ordered to be ready for the
execution.
But the merchant was too thin to fit the stake. So, a fat
man was searched for. The servant’s eyes fell on the
disciple who had flattened himself for months on
bananas and rice and wheat and ghee. He pleaded the
king that he was innocent but of no use. While he was
waiting for death, he remembered his guru who saw
everything in his vision. He was blessed with magic
powers.
He arrived at once to save his disciple. He whispered
something in his disciple’s ears. Then he requested the
king to put him to the stake first. When the disciple
heard this, he said that he was brought there first, so he
should be put to death first.
The king was surprised to see the fight between the
guru and his disciple over the issue of who should be
executed first. When the king asked them the reason,
the guru hesitatingly told him that whoever died on the
stake first, would be reborn as the king of that country.
The one who died next would be the minister of that
country. The king was puzzled. He did not want to lose the kingdom to someone else in the next life. So, he
discussed the matter with his minister and finally they
arrived at the conclusion that they should go on the
stake to be reborn as king and minister. So, they went
secretly to the prison and freed the guru and his
disciple.
Then they disguised themselves as the two and got
themselves executed. The people now made the guru
and his disciples their king and minister respectively
and began to lead a normal life.