Story Terra

  In ancient time during the reign of Brahmadatta there was a town Andhapura by name. There lived two hawkers. One was Seriban and Seriba the other. They decided on which way they were to hawk. If oney Only two of family members were alive. One of them was a girl and old grand mother the other. They lived a very poor life. In good days of solvency the chief of the family took his meal on a plate of gold. But the plate became dirty being unused for many days. It seemed to be not a plate of gold. The hawker Seriba was greedy and sly as well. One day he was passing by the house of that wealthy merchant family. ‘Buy a jar’-he shouted. On hearing the shouting the girl said, ‘Grandmother, please buy me a jar.’ The grandmother said, ‘Oh my darling, we are poor, where shall we get money from?’ The girl gave the golden plate to her. She said, ‘This plate is of no use for us’. The grandmother called on the hawker Seriba. She asked him to sit on and gave him the plate. She sai...

In ancient times Bodhisattva was born in Udichya Brahmin family during the reign of king Brahmadatta of Baranasi. Worldy life is sorrowful, Renunciation is rather pleasant-thinking so he went to the Himalayas. He took initiation there. At last he acquired the knowledge of meditation and attained eight kinds of contemplation. Five hundred mendicants were with him as disciples. Once during the rainy season Bodhisattva reached the Himalayas along with his disciples. From there he went to the town and habitation by begging. There he spent three months of the rainy days in the garden of the king as guest. Then he went to the king for permission for departure. The King said, ‘You have grown old. Why will you return to the Himalayas at this old age? You please stay here sending your disciples to the Himalayas.’ He agreed with the request of the king. Then he said to one of his senior disciples. ‘I offer you the responsibility to look after the five hundred disciples. Go to the Him...

In ancient times Bodhisattva was born in a Brahmin family. He was married to a Brahmin daughter. At that time he had there daughter-eg. Nanda, Nandabati and Sundari Nanda. Bodhisattva died earlier. His wife and there daughters fell in want. they were to collect food by working in the neighbour’s house. In the mean time Bodhisattva was born as Subarnahangsa after death. Subarnahangsa means golden goose. The feathers of his body were golden in colour. One day he remembered his previous birth. He came to know the condition of his wife and there daughters. He came to know daughters, I am your father. I shall remove your miseries; I shall give you a golden feather from time to time. You will get money by selling it. You have to face no suffering any longer. Saying this he gave a feather to them. The Brahmin woman and her daughters were very happy by selling the feather. They had no want. They passed their days happily. As the days passed the Brahmin woman became greedy more and more...

Once upon a time Brahmadatta was the king of Baranasi. Then the Bodhisattva was famous treasurer. The treasurer has a friend kalakarni by name. Kalakarni was his play-mate in his childhood. Next time he fell into great distress. then he wanted help from the Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva engaged him to look after all his property. From that time Kalakarni had been working as his employee. After Kalakarni had come to the rich man’s house, it was a common thing to hear in the house, ‘Stand up Kalakarni, sit down Kalakarni, go Kalakarni.’ Then the treasurer’s friend were displeased and called on him and said, ‘Lord Treasurer, it is heard from your house to address Kalakarni. Stand up, sit down, eat, etc. To look at its not good. Please give up his company.’ Bodhisattva replied, ‘A name only serves to denote a man, and the wise do not measure a man by his name. No body should suspect misfortune after hearing any name. I will never throw over, for his mere name’s sake, the friend with w...

In an ancient time, there was king named Kartavirya. His full name was Kartaviryarjuna. He was very honest and religious mined. He became very tired by performing royal duties. Tiredness should be removed. So he left the capital city for a quiet place. The place was very nice. Surrounded by a forest, there was a beautiful place in the middle of the forest. On there side of the palace there was a large late. There were many blooming lotus at the lake. A gentle cold breeze was blowing. On coming here, even tiredness gets removed naturally. The king of Kartavirya decided to stay there for some days. At that time, Ravana was the king of Lanka. He was very outrageous. When he gets scope he attacked other’s kingdom. By fighting he occupied the kingdom. He came to know that the king Kartavirya was not present in the capital. At this opportunity, he attacked the Kartavirya’s kingdom. King Kartavirya had been informed. When he knew that his kingdom was attacked by Ravana; he was very ...

Once upon a time there was a king. One day in the evening he was standing in his place. At that time, he saw that a man was crying while walking on the road. He was carrying a basket on his head. The king called the man by his staff. The man came. He cried and said, ‘Oh! Emperor, I btough a basket full of green papayas to your market. But nobody purchased it. So, I will have to fast with my family today. The king thought, if he could sell papayas and with this money he could by rice and other things and he could it with his family. What will happen now?’ The king thought for a little while, what to do? Then he ordered his staff to buy all papayas and to give money from the royal court. The staff did so. The man gave thanks to the king and with that money he bought rice and other things and went home with a lot of satisfaction. Then the king thought, ‘What is the permanent solution to this problem?’ If anybody cannot sell his goods, then how will he live? After that da...

This is all about eleven century after the creation of man. Then the Godfearing Noah Lived on the Earth. We know about him from the book of Genesis in the Bible. His father’s name was Lamarck and his grandfather’s name was Methuselah. At that time all people were going about in the evil ways, but, Noah and the people of his family were leading their lives, being obedient to God, Noah was a Good man in the eyes of God. He had deep faith, obedience, piety and love for God. God asked all the people to come back to good path through Noah. But the people did not listen to him. Noah being God loving was saved, but the others were destroyed. The misleading people During the time of Noah, the earth was filled with the sinners. People cheated, hated and fought with each other. They did not pay heed to the word of God. At this God was greatly saddened. He said to Noah,” have decided, I will destroy all the people from the face of the earth. Along with them I will destroy all the cre...

Long long years ago. There was a king named Brahamadutta in Varanasi. At that Bodhisattva was born in the peacock. The body and the feather of the peacock was of golden colour. The peacock lived in a nearby deep forest. The Baberu Kingdom was situated near Varanasi. Once some merchants of Baranasi started for Baberu Kingdom with the hope of trade. They were crossing the sea with a boat. In the boat there was a direction determining crow. For which there was no fear of loosing direction in a deep sea. The merchants reached the Baberu Kingdom. It was interesting that there was no bird at that time in Baberu Kingdom. Seeing the crow the people of Baberu Kingdom wished to buy it from the merchants. The merchants sold the crow at twenty one Kahan (Taka) The people of Baberu Kingdom did not see any bird during these days. They would offer fish, meat, sweet and fruits etc. Everyday to the crow for eating. In this way the crow used to get their care. The crow was very ha...

Long long years ago. In ancient time during the reign of king Brahmadattva of Varanasi. Bodhisattva was born in a monkey family of Himabanta province. With great figure he had the strength like of an elephant. He was lucky and at the same time powerful. He was living in a forest on the turning point of the river Ganges. At the time there was a crocodile in the river Ganges. By seeing the strong body of the monkey the wife of the crocodile wised to eat the heart of the monkey. The wife of the crocodile said to him that I have the wish to eat the heart of the monkey king. You arrange for it. The crocodile said “How it is possible? I live in water. He lives on the land. How can I catch him?” Catch him in any way. I will die if I do not get the heart of the monkey. Crocodile replied, yes,” There is a way. I shall bring to you. “The crocodile then went on the bank on the Ganges to Bodhisattva, the king of the monkey. After reaching the crocodile said,” Oh monkey king you are s...

In the past Brahmadattva was the king of Baranasi. At that time Bodhisattva was born in farmer's family and lived on farming. A merchant had an ass there .He used to go out for trade by putting the  sale able goods on the back of the ass. One the merchant got lions skin. The merchant had a bad idea in his mind. He thought it is good for me." I will put on the skin of the lion to the ass and the drag the ass to the farmer's crop field."the farmers would thing the ass  as a lion . They will not come close to it due to fear. The ass could eating full stomach. He would not have to thing about the food of the ass. As he thought, so he did. He often dragged the as to the crop field when it was hungry. The ass used to the crop. The merchant used to watch the scene from far away and fun to see that. On the other hand, the farmers sorrow had on limit. They were loosing the crops. They could not come close in fear of the lion. One day the merchant come to the villag...