long, long ago, there were four men going to Takaseila city to study martial arts. After having finished learning their separate martial arts, the four men said goodbye to their instructors and went back home. when they were half way home, the four men spotted a pool of clear water, but they did not know that the water was poisonous, so no sooner had they washed their faces with the water than they all became blind and could not go back to their homes. One of them said:" How can we find food to eat since we are all blind?" One man said: When I was not blind I saw a mango tree with a mango fruit in the park of the King." Another man said:" Please lead us there i you exactly know where the royal park is." One
man said. If you see that mango tree, I also see it, but it has only one fruit One man quickly said:" If you see that it bears a fruit, leave it to me, I'll throw it down." Another man then said: hen you throw it down, I'll try to get it so that it will not drop onto the ground and break." After agreeing with one another, the four blind men walked together to the royal park and really saw a mango fruit on a mango tree. A man then threw a stone at it, hitting its stem and causing the mango to fall. Before the mango touched the ground, a man rushed to receive it on time, but the mango still broke in his hands, splashing its nectar into the four men's eyes, thus neutralizing the poison in their eyes. The four men regained their eyesight and could see everything again. After and seen the having recovered their eyesight mango, the four men started quarreling over the mango. They then went to a court and told the judge
about what had happened, but the judge could not solve their problem, so he took the four men to seek an audience with the King and told the King the full account. The King took the case into account with his wisdom and insight and then said to the four men The man who received the mango should get half of the mango alone and another half should be divided among the other three." The four men agreed with the King's decision and ate their shares before saying goodbye to the King and left When the four men were walking back home, one of them spotted a buried treasure of gold. They then started digging it together and when they approached the treasure, one man said:" I am afraid that I might dig it more than you three do." One man said: Me too." Another man said:" am afraid as well." Then, the man who had spotted the treasure said:" I am the most afraid of you all as it is
I, who have seen the treasure first and I also help you all digging it, so I should get it more than you all." The four men argued with each other and still could not find a solution, so they went to a court, but the judge could not solve their problem, so he took the four men to see the King. After having considered the case wisely and carefully, the King had the gold divided into five shares, three shares of which were given to the man who had first seen the treasure because he was so honest that he did not hide it from the other three men and the other two shares were given to the three men. The four men agreed to receive their shares of gold as ordered by the King and then went back to their separate homes.
