The magical donkey~story of Akbar Birbal

One day Emperor Akbar gifted a very expensive necklace to his queen. The queen was very happy to see that precious necklace.

Akbar - Here take this gift from us for you.

Rani - This is very beautiful. I don't even have a necklace like this. I like it very much, it is very beautiful.

Akbar - Yes, even if you are a queen, why are you not beautiful. I have got it made by special artisans. Special for you

Rani - I like it very much. I will always keep this with me. I will not let it separate me. I am very lucky to have refuge.

Akbar – We are very glad that you liked this necklace. We will see your love in it whenever you wear it.

Rani - Thank you Jahan Panah!

Then in the morning when the queen wakes up from sleep and gets ready after taking a bath, she does not get her necklace. She becomes very sad.

Rani - Where did the necklace go, it was kept here, I kept it here when I slept at night, where did it go, my necklace was lost somewhere. Maids, maids, is anyone here?

A maid comes there on the call of the queen.

Maid - What happened Queen!

Rani – Our necklace is lost somewhere, help us to find it, we kept it here before sleeping at night, but now it is not there.

Maid - Queen, you wear some other necklace, you have many necklaces.

Rani – No, no, not at all, that necklace is a very special necklace. The place where the shelter was given to us with great love. We want that necklace, no one else is needed.

Saying this, the queen sits down dejected, only then Akbar comes there in a short while –

Akbar - What happened to you, why are you sitting so sad?

Rani – Jahan Panah, that… Jahan Panah The necklace you gifted us has been lost somewhere.

Akbar – Lost, what does lost mean, what do you want to say, did you drop it somewhere?

Rani – Where I had taken it off here before going to sleep at night, then don't know where it went. Forgive us, we could not protect your gift. (and she started crying)

Akbar - Queen don't cry. It was just a small gift, we will make a better necklace for you and we promise you that. And we will find you that necklace too. Just don't worry. Today you stay in our room only.

Soldier take you and other soldiers and maids and go to every corner of the whole queen's room and find the necklace.

Constable – Woh…Woh, where thefts have happened in other parts of Panah Mahal as well. We all tried hard to catch that thief, but did not succeed. Till today we could not catch that thief.

Akbar - What, theft has happened in other parts of the palace as well, why were we not informed about it. First go find the necklace in the queen's room, if it is not found there then we will think of something else.

(Then the soldier comes after a while)

Soldier - We all searched for the defeat everywhere, but could not find the defeat anywhere.

Akbar - Now the matter is serious, now only Birbal can solve this matter. Soldiers, Birbal should be called to us now, we want that necklace tonight itself.

(Birbal appears there shortly)

Birbal - Where did you take refuge for so many nights, why did you remember me?

Akbar - In fact Birbal, we had given a very valuable necklace to our queen as a gift, but when the queen woke up in the morning, the necklace was not there. Rani is very sad, we cannot see her sad. You have to find the necklace tonight itself.

Birbal - Well, this is the case, where the shelter is one thing for sure, the thief is from the soldiers and the maids only. To find out about this, I will have to call a friend of mine.

Akbar – friend, which friend and why do you want to go, tell us, we will bubble your friend.

Birbal - No, only I can go to the place of refuge to call him. My friend is not just any friend, he has magical powers, which will help us catch the thief.

Akbar - Go Birbal, now we too will eagerly wait to meet that friend of yours.

Birbal - Jahan Panah, you just call the soldiers and maids guarding the queen's room, I will bring my friend now.

Then in a while Birbal comes to the palace with a donkey.

Akbar - Birbal, what a joke, we had told you to bring your friend, he is a donkey.

Birbal - Yes, this is the refuge, my friend, who has magical powers, this will help us catch the thief.

Akbar - How will it help you, how will it tell you who is the thief?

(Birbal makes the donkey stand in a tent)

Birbal – Send soldiers and maids one by one inside this tent where you take refuge and they all have to hold the tail of the donkey and say that I did not steal. When all these people will catch the donkey's tail, only then my friend will tell who is the thief.

Akbar - Ok! Soldiers and maids, all of you hold the donkey's tail one by one.

And then all the soldiers and maids hold the tail of the donkey –

Birbal - Now I will ask my friend who is the thief.

(After some time) Where we have to smell the hands of all these shelters. And only after smelling the hand, this soldier is a thief.

Soldier - No, I have not committed any theft in the shelter, I have served you for so many years. The testimony of this donkey does not prove anything.

Akbar - Birbal how can you say that he is a thief. How can you understand the talk of a donkey.

Birbal - Jahan Panah I had put a special perfume on the tail of that donkey. That's why I asked all of them to hold the donkey's tail and where the shelter was, I also knew that the thief would not hold the donkey's tail for fear of being caught. The fragrance of that perfume was coming from everyone's hands. But when I smelled his hands, the smell was not coming in his hands. That's why he is a thief.

Akbar - Salt is forbidden, we will punish you for this.

Soldier - No where to hide Please forgive me. I got greedy. Forgive me. I will return all the stolen things. just forgive me

Akbar - No, you cannot be forgiven, you make holes in the plate in which you eat, take the soldiers and put them in the dungeon.

Birbal once again you caught that thief with your cleverness, thank you Birbal! Thanks!

Birbal - Thank you, where you find refuge