The Tale of Three Fish, A Story from the Panchatantra

The Tale of Three Fish, A Story from the Panchatantra

There lived three fish in a reservoir. The first is called Anna. She is proactive and believes in strategically avoiding danger as soon as you sense it. The second fish is called Pratyu, and she only likes to avoid things that are really dangerous. She doesn't believe in the threat of anticipated danger. Last but not the least in the gang is Yaddi, who believes that everything is destined and one can never avoid fate. We must leave everything to destiny. One day some fishermen discover the reservoir and plan on catching all the fish the next day. Anna, Pratyu, and Yaddi overhear their plan. Anna immediately leaves the reservoir after suggesting her friends to do the same. Pratyu and Yaddi stay behind but when the fishermen come next morning, Pratyu immediately starts planning an escape. She finds a dead beaver in the reservoir and quickly wraps herself in it’s dead, stinky body, ultimately getting caught in one fisherman’s net. Although all the other fish start suffering out of water, Pratyu manages to hold her breath for some time. The fisherman discovers the dead beaver, and throws it into the reservoir again. Upon reaching the bottom of the reservoir, Pratyu jumps out of the beaver’s body and feels proud of her resourcefulness. Yaddi, who left everything to fate gets caught in another net and ends up dying with other fish in agony. The moral of this story is God helps those who help themselves.

About the Hindi Language in India: Hindi (Devanagari script, हिन्दी) is an Indo-European and Indo-Aryan language. It is one of many languages spoken in India today, and one of the twenty-two official languages used by the Government of India along with English. It is spoken mainly in the Hindi belt (parts of Northern, Eastern, Western, and Central India) by more than 340 million people. Hindi, in all its linguistic varieties, is the fourth most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish, and English.

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