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MADE A LIVING BY SPINNING YARN —| harry “ToseTHER, THAT Te” V tance some REST NOW, MY CHILD, WHILE 1.COOK THE EVENING ONE MORNING , DURHU WAS ABOUT 70 BEGIN ISPINNING, WHEN & GUST OF WIND BLEW AWAY THE COTTON. HAL HA! YOu WILL HAVE TO RUN FASTER, WIND, GIVE. ME TO CATCH UP WITH BACK MY COTTON!THE NAUGHTY WIND BLEW THE COTTON | {AT LAST THE WIND TOOK PITY ON \. /sHe witt eve You BACK YOUR COTTON. ‘G0 TO MY MOTHER, THE \ OLD WOMAN IN THE ‘MOON, WHO WEAVES PUFFS OF cLouD ALL DAY LONG. THANK YOU, WIND. WILL RUN TO HER AS FAST AS. TAN! [AS CuKnu WAS RUNNING ,SHE PASSED Acow — DUKHUIT AM HUNGRY) WON'T You GIVE, ‘ME SOME HAY TO EATS.SHE RESUMED HER JOURNEY BUT, VERY ||DUKHU STOPPED AND SWEPT THE |S00N, SHE HAD TO STOP AGAIN. THIS — TIME IT WAS A BANYAN TREE THAT y 11'S NICE AND “ CLEAN ALL DUKHU, THE BIRDS HAVE MADE SUCH «eter We ! ‘SWEEP THE SHE BEGAN TO RUN AGAIN, WITHOUT A WORD, Bursa HORSE STOPPED HER | WENT 70 DRAW WATER oral FROM A WELL NEAR BY. sp fea our a ft “pg VERY THIRSTY! 7 | Pe — AW : is m Us THIS WILL QUENCH YOUR THIRST, DEAR, Now | must HURRY AWAY.«.. Til AT LAST SHE REACHED THE OLD WOMAN =< = = [ +1 AS WE ARE VERY POOR, MAY V HAVE IT BACK, PLEASE?(OF COURSE, YOU SHALL \ | DUKHU DID AS SHE WAS TOLD. HAVE YOUR COTTON, DEAS Bur, FIRST, You MUST 17 WAS AN ENCHANTED POOL..wHEN] [BUT SHE WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS. SHE DUKA EMERGED, SHE LOOKED WENT BACK TO THE OLD WOMAN. lecnurieuc.sHe was DeesseD IN lenanp cLomes aud FINE may | HAVE Au Tose | | MY COTTON CASKETS ARE ue JEWELLERY. - Now 2. FULL OF COTTON. (buKHt TOOK UP THE SMALLEST MMM / THANK YoU FOR CASKET. YOUR KINDNESS, 2 GRANDMA! YOU ARE | WELCOME, | mse CHILDTHEN DUKHU STARTED RUNNING HOME. OM THE Me WHEN | NEEDED HELP. NEXT SHE PASSED THE COW, WHO GAVE DUK HER CALF. LADEN WITH ALL THESE PRESENTS, DUKHHU REACHED HOME AT LAST. U'VE HAD SUCH AN ADVENTURE![Bannir CPENED THE CASKET | AND (ram 1S ENOUGH ; sappuies! || HERE FOR Us TO SEE Wear Ve Ts EMERALDS! || Live ON FoR THE RE with suKiu BROUGHT HOME, EMERALD ve SS , MOTHER — DIAMONDS! t ‘ST OF OUR DEAR. RUBIES! Lives! Ly a BUT SUKHU AND HER MOTHER WERE WILDLY JEALOUS WHEN THE’ THE $' TORY. ~ Tf Pon's want DukHu’s = THINGS! f f CAN eT | setter — + GIFTS! THE WICKED WIND JUST WON'T BLOW AWAY MN COTTON!“AND CRIED OUT — YOu HORRID, NASTY WIND! GIVE ME BACK My COTTON ‘AT ONCE! [THE WIND SAID NOTHING, BUT SUKHL RAN |Our OF HE HOUSE. SHE CAME ACROSS THe cow — — SUKHU, PLEASE GIVE ME SOME HAY! WHY SHOULD | D0 THAT & | HAVE No’ Time! ‘SWEEP THE GROUND BENEATH ME PLEASE, SUKHU. | SUKHU REFUSED 70 HELP ANYONE ON HER WAY. AT LAST SHE CAME TO THE OLD WOMAN IN THE MOON. GET UP, OLD WOMAN I GIVE ME. MORE THAN YoU GAVE DUKHU! ILL-MANNERED CHILD! [rurry uP! way ARE YOU TAKING 80 LONG? TAKE A DIP | iN THAT PootSUKHU TOOK A DIP AND EMERGED AS BEAUTIFUL AS DUKHU. TLL TAKE ANOTHER DIP. THEN VILL HAVE MORE THAN DUKHU! | TOLD you TO TAKE yusT ONE DIP! 1 WANTED TO | HAVE More, | THAN DuKHU ! ete GREED AND JEALOUSY BRING | THEN OWN PUNISHMENT.ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE LIVED A KING WHO HAD SEVEN QUEENS. BUT HE HAD NO CHILDREN AND THIS MADE HIM VERY UNHAPPY. YEARS PAGSED AND ONE DAY HE WAS | |BuT THERE WERE OTHERS WHO PLEASED 70 BE TOLD THAT HIS SEVENTH, QUEEN WAS GOING TO HAVE A CHLD WERE DISMAYED AT THE NEWS — THE SEVENTH QUEEN 1S, GOING 10 BE THE MOST UAPORTANT ONE NOW! AND SHE WILL ILL-TREAT, ALL OF us!WAS VERY TIRED, SHE FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP. THE OTHER QUEENS MATCHED AN EVIL PLAN — THE SEVENTH QUEEN GAVE BIRTH TO SEVEN SONS AND A DAUGHTER. AS SHE LET US TAKE =n “AND BURY THEM AWAY THE INTHE ASH-HEAP! CHILDREN. 5 é rs CHILD © THERE IS If xo cHiLD! you WHERE 1s My GAVE BIRTH TO cHLD® 18 ITA THOSE CRABS! THE SEVENTH QUEEN FAINTED FROM | our Lever Aneta wo worker! | SEND HER AWAY! HATHAL MAL UNHAPPY SITUATION. BL Sri SeTHE SEVENTH QUEEN WAS ‘AND WHY ARE THE BIRDS SILENT? YOUR MAJESTY, HOW Bur A FEW CAN | WORSHIP THE FLOWERS WERE LORD wrrHouT A SINGLE FLOWER?” " "LL REWARD Teaw'r une WEIR SAND WHT ARVONE. wo “GONG ON! CaN BRING mE - A FLOWER. “GO AND GET THEM AT SIRE, THERE ARE EIGHT | CHAMPAK FLOWERS BLOOMING | ON THE TREE ON THE AS) Tust THEM, THE TREE SHOT UP HIGHER AND FETCH TE HIGHER BEYOND HIS REACH. yl YOU CAN'T TOUCH US ‘OH NO, OH NO! LET THE FIRST QUEEN COME TO HER, WE'LL Go!THE FIRST QUEEN WAS WORRIED WHEN) TAM AFRAID TO Bur iT wi SHE WAS TOLD ABOUT 17 Gor. to THAT L00K VERY p> Aoi-neAP! Trefou DONT Go! COME NOW! TAM VERY THE FIRST QUEEN FINALLY OVERCAME || THE SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH HER FEAR AND WENT TO THE QUEENS CAME AND HAD THE SAME ASH-HEAP. SHE TRIED TO PLUCK THE | EXPERIENCE. WHEN THE SIXTH QUEEN FLOWERS « + CANT REACH THEM, EITHER. Gou CAN'T GET US (OH NO, OH NO! | LET THE SECOND QUEEN COME! TO HER, WE WILL GO! THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO! THE OH, DEAR! KING must BE WHAT IF HE, ‘SENT FOR. FINDS ouT THE TRUTH!EM S carne fe 4 AQ prorter JP] LADDER! . Sikes x ou caw eer us ' Om NO, OH No} y\, Ler "THE SEVENTH QUEEN come fe 30 NERWELL GO.ut | HAVE BANISHED THE SEVENTH QUEEN! THE SEVENTH QUEEN: GO AND FIND THE SEVENTH QUEEN! & HAVE. IT ANNOUNCED! Vers No W IN THIS[ THEN ONE OF THE KING'S SOLDIERS SAW HER FROM A DISTANCE - IFONLY | HAD My CHILDREN WITH ME... EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE CRABS!WE'VE BEEN SENT 2) [THE CARRIAGE IS BY THE KING To || AM.' DREAMING? ) ( WaiTiNa. LL BRING erie nina 70 I cam i BE TRUE? HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE! WHY 00 | FEEL 60 DRAWN TOWARDS| THEM? I FEEL $0 HAPPY I IT IS, AS IF | HAVE FOUND MY CHILDREN AGAIN!A MoneNr LareR, THe FLoweRs CHANGED TO SEVEN PRINCES AND A PRINCESS. WE'RE IN FOR iT Now! CAN IT REALLY BE TRUE @ ARE YOU REALLY MY CHILDRENS YES, MOTHER, WE ARE ALL yours! [ur THE KING TURNED STERNLY UPON THEM — WHAT DOES THIS MEAN 2 WHY ARE YOU SNEAK~ ING AWAY 50 GUILTILY 2 THEY WERE SILENT. [7 WAS THE [GHAMPAK TREE THAT SPOKE — N(THEY T0OK Away THE EIGHT CHILDREN BORN 10. THE SevENTH QUEEN AND BURIED M Thcie in THe ASH HEAPYOU CRUEL, UcAN'T TRUST YOU WICKED BF) \ acain. you SHALL WOMEN! c \ ALL BE BANISHED! WE'RE SORRY. FORGIVE us, my LORD. yes, OF course, MY DEAR. YES, BUT WASN'T IT NOT THE ONLY ONES 3 WK to THE marteR? TO BLAME,CAN A HUMAN BEING GIVE BIRTH TO CRABS © HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING BEFORE? LET US FORGET THE PAST AND BE HAPPY “TOGETHER Z THEN LET THERE 7 BE NO MORE TALK (OF BANIGHMENTS, MY LORD! ‘THINK OF IT AGAIN. AND THE KING, THE SEVEN QUEENS, AND THE CHILDREN LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!THE VALUE OF TEARS i y z Lo THE BIRDS WERE SINGING .THERE WAS HAPPINESS IN EVERY HEART+ [THE QUEEN WENT To THE FOREST WITH |HER FRIENDS AND MAIDS. jam = How 8 THE WHOLE. WORLD LOOKS!77 WAS ALMOST MIDNIGHT WHEN THE YES, SORROWS AND KING CAME IN PROBLEMS. WHO ELSE CAN HELP THEM BUT THEIR KING? WHY ARE: you $0 LATE, my LORD? THE, SORROWS OF THE PEOPLE. a7 (WHat A SHAME IT 15 “THE KING TO WASTE A BEAUTI- HAS HIS. FUL DAY HEARING DUTIES TO COMPLAINTS! PERFORM! THING HAPPENED DAY AFTER | can’t you \ HOW CAN |, WHEN THERE (DAY. FINALLY, THE QUEEN BECAME VERY | ENJOY ARE SO MANY UNHAPPY WHY ARE you ALWAYS 50 FULL OF WORRIES ?1 WANT OnLy Vreccsam i ql MAPPINESS! [|| EVEN ONE TEAR |_WiL BE BANIsHED! i) N ANYONE WHO SHEDS EVEN ONE SINGLE TEAR WILL BE BANISHED.MY LORD, | couLDN'T “(kine Ros HELP CRYING. Us OF OUR gg MY ONLY CHILD IS, VERY ILL SORRY, MY DEAR. BUT THE SAD ONES 80 MANY PEOPLE Z I GO! THEY ARE ql HAVE BEEN BANISHED! No Loa VERY SOON WE SHALL HAVE AN EMPTY cITY! [A YEAR PASSED. MEANWHILE THE |THEN IT WAS SPRING ONCE AGAIN. THE | [QUEEN HAD GIVEN BIRTH TOA SON. WOODS WERE ABLAZE WITH COLOUR» HAVE YOu SEEN THENO, | HAVEN'T HAD TIME.| | DON'T WANT TO SEE | ANYTHING TILL MY SON IS BETTER. HE 1 COLD} CALL THE DOCTOR, Quick! Get WELL HE LOOKS | S00N, MY VERY PALE! PRECIOUS! [THE NEXT DAY THE KING SENT FOR HER. TTHAS BEEN REPORTED Toe war soucwes ) <> HN wi tone, Was‘SHE WALKED TILL SHE REACHED THE | | FOREST, WHICH SHE NOW FOUND DARKYm NO Longer THe YY QUEEN. AND NOW 1,700, HAVE BEEN BANISHED. [THE QUEEN NURSED A chi WHO | [HAD FALLEN iLL. ; You HAVE BEEN | AWAKE ALL NigHT, My QUEEN. GO | AND REST Now. , 2BRIGHT MORNING, THE KING CAME r [THe FOREST N MIS GOLDEN cnAeior| | ARE. iy Nt VfIneo uaa on eCEd mesa, Bintite, | Seieiemmma” | Raia oN Sanches |i i Kare | Sema ‘mays TeBcrmeore | itn seas Seto mareat ne 3 ie "Sommaoan | Basen iri ‘Tre Sten Nongoee Fow'tns locate | Bouse ‘cians TE an smmceeee, coer Serer re oat ‘nonrte Seca = Beszeroataden | Seen Bees ‘cna aa sou | Sete eo — ii coer ‘en a Singh eo ‘kalpana Chews Inaiig te kare | SrA Tame Granade Rama | REPO ‘Secewtomeriand The ackars OF ree ‘rw Sigh tect te Sharare ree kata Staged Date tated Heroes Of Haro fern Usayane ee NargstPonde irae Sn Sceeatneo Amber | Msrrana Pepiegereneg | Mana ayaoratna ‘Chaitanya Manaprsbiw ithe ml Beto | Sacre nau ae moun oe Sens eeenan See KSttaeciamna cour | ABenaf oscars oe KECIAG Mt? | Glnhamansorn | earnest ee tata And Samupla | Gur Amn poanat aoa Nadie fame Gur) ial atas ee Pod Sa Naney Exaltre cera Sa teen ad feel he Sat Scot Gu ror Seo, [eee |S pain See |RSS cal comme "eace te Cateehedur shat HITOPADESHATALES | The Sint Teacher elena Tak Fon ener va Paneo | “Wooepecte eee oe seein | ee Toney $B eer one | aneouite (Biden || Ronevonake Seepenes eases ee Werte So Pept Sore beaveneanrs Seite, paren on Woniy Sees “Riana | Tae amare ares Sees Gouge | Anya tar comreveory cusses ene Herolte nian ius. 0 See ee oo SEEGE, ever eseIKHU AND DUKHU When a weaver dies, one of his wives drives the other one and her daughter out of the house. But the gentle and generous nature of he pe eee es ee en ee oe Pee oe er aac) eet ee ke be thrown out, not foreseeing that one day she too might feel sorrow. Poteet eee down, present only in rapidly vanishing oral culture. Each region and language has its own particular set of stories ~ hough many tales recur ‘across different traditions. The stories here are taken from Bengol Cea oe eer ee MaRTaR ST Ce eee! “Amar Chita Kethos area glorious tribute India’ rich cla hortogo.Theso books have been an integral pat of my chdren’s early years, as they hove been for many ‘other families across Indio. Comics ae a great woy of reaching aut chien, ncleat ing reading habits and diving thir questo lorn more abou our rool." NARAYAN MURTHY, CHIEF MENTOR, INFOSYS oMasnaelezsory