The Lion that Sprang to Life

There lived four friends in a certain town. Although, all four of them were young Brahmins, one of them was a complete ignorant in matters of learning but had good common-sense. The other three were very learned in matters of the Holy Scriptures, but lacked common-sense.

One day, as the four friends were assembled together, they decided, “The scholarship that we have over the Holy Scriptures is no good, if we cannot use it to impress the king, or otherwise to earn money!”

They decided to travel, in order to earn money using their learnings. But the fourth friend was not learned, so they thought of leaving him behind. They agreed, “What good is common-sense? His talents would not help in earning money, let only three of us travel.”

After much pleading by the fourth Brahmin, they decide, “It will not be correct to behave like this to a dear friend, Let us take him along with us! We should also share a part of our earnings with him!”

As decided, the four of them started travelling. As they were travelling through a jungle, they noticed the bones of a dead lion, lying on their way.

One of them said, “Let us start using our scholarship! We have a dead lion in front of us. Let us test our scholarship, and try to bring life into it!”

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