Booklings Effort Dec 2013 | Page 15

Booklings Effort 15 “When can I depart from this Gurukul”. Then the guru calmly answered” I kept you because I love and you can go whenever you want to go”. Then the Guru gave his Daughter for marriage with Uttanka and also a reward to make him young again. Then as a Dakshina Uttanka asked the Guru what he wanted but then he didn’t want anything from Uttanka. Then he went and asked the Guru’s wife what she wanted was the celestial ear rings of the wife of Saudasa. Then he began his journey to the palace of Saudasa. On the way he found Saudasa now a cannibal. Saudasa wanted to eat him but then he stopped him. Uttanka told him that it is a wrong to injure someone on such a mission. Uttanka also told him that after I get the ear rings from your Wife and give it to my Guru’s wife. I will return to you so that you can eat me. Then he got the ear rings but before he went back to the Gurukul. He asked Saudasa “The learned say that one who does not follow the advice of a friend is a fool. The one who wrongs a friend is a villain and I am your friend Saudasa, so tell me this would you advise me a friend to return to you a cannibal”. Saudasa answered no but before he could change his mind. Uttanka immediately ran back to the Gurukul and married the guru’s daughter and lived happily ever after.