One morning Prince Siddhartha and his cousin Devadatta, went for a walk in the woods. Siddhartha pointed out a swan flying in the sky to Devadatta. Before Siddhartha could stop him, Devadatta shot an arrow at it.
An old man lived with his two sons in a Japanese village. The old man had always wanted daughters. He waited eagerly for his sons to grow up so that when they married, he would finally have daughters in the house.
Gautama Buddha used to go out with a begging bowl to collect a morsel of food for the day. As soon as he appeared in front of a house, the lady of the house would come out with some cooked food, and offer it Buddha. Buddha would accept it, thank the lady and go away.
Lallu, the crocodile was bored. He was looking for friends to play with. He found none. Then, he spotted an elephant wading into a stream. “Ah, it will be fun to pull him into the water,” Lallu thought.
Lallu, the crocodile took a juicy mango for his wife. (Click here to read the story of how Lallu got the mango.) She liked it very much. He told her, his friend, Mangu, the monkey who lived on ǡ mango tree had given it. “Does he eat a lot of mangoes?” his wife asked.
Salim, son of Akbar the Great, loved all animals, especially kabootars, or doves. One evening, he was in the garden…