Greediness

Long time back there lived a King named Hashavardhan. He was so greedy that he taxed his people heavily irrespective of his accumulated wealth and never cared about his people’s sufferings. This wealth didn’t help anyone but earned the King many enemies.

These enemies were jealous of his riches and fought battles against the King but never succeeded. This was because the King had a wise minister who always planned his strategies which ensured his triumph.

Illustration by Nisha Yadav

So not intending to fail again, the enemies now planned to target the King on his weakness. They offered a lot of wealth to one of the King’s scouts to inform the King that there was a dangerous snake resting in the dark forest with a diamond on its head. They even demanded the scout to mention that this diamond seemed rare.

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