Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
A rich landowner was on his deathbed. Gasping for breath, he told his three sons to dig under his bed when he was gone, and saying that, gave up the ghost.
Some days later, the sons dug at the spot and unearthed three pots,placed one above the other. The topmost pot contained mud; the middle pot contained dried cowdung and the lowest pot contained straw. Below this pot there was a silver coin.
The brothers were perplexed.
"Obviously, father meant to convey some message to us through the pots and their contents," said the oldest brother. "But what?"
They wracked their brains but none of them could come up with an explanation.Finally they decided to consult their doctor who was also a family friend.
The doctor laughed when the brothers put their problem before him.
"Your father loved puzzles," he said, "and I think he could not resist setting one last one. The interpretation is simple.The topmost pot contains mud, you say. That means he wants his eldest son to have his fields.The second pot contains cowdung. It means he wants his second son to have his herd of cattle.The last pot contains straw. Now straw is golden-coloured. That means he wants his youngest son to have all his gold."
The brothers were happy with the way their father had apportioned his wealth and marvelled at the doctor's sagacity.
"But one thing remains unexplained," said the youngest brother. "The silver coin at the bottom of the pots."
"Your father knew you would come to consult me," smiled the doctor. "The coin is my fee."
Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.