The Wooden doll

Long ago, there were four friends who were in different professions but all of them worked together. One was a Carpenter, the other was a Tailor, the third was a Goldsmith, and the last one was a Brahmin.

They didn't had much income in their own village so one day, they decided to go together to the other village in search of better jobs.

They carried their tools along with them. They walked all day and still couldn't reach the village. They decided to take rest under a tree and sleep in the forest as it was dark already.

Fearing that someone can rob them if they all went to sleep, they decided to take turns to stay awake and look after their belongings. First the Carpenter was awake to look after
the belongings. He had nothing to do, so he took out his tools from his bag and thought of carving a lovely doll. He started his job and ended with a beautiful wooden doll with lovely black eyes, and long black hair. He named her Roopmati. He went to sleep and the Tailor woke up next.

Seeing the doll Tailor thought "Let me dress her up with a costly sari". So he took out a small but beautiful cloth from his belongings and made a sari for her and so now Roopmati wore a lovely red sari and she was looking so pretty! And then he went back to sleep and the Goldsmith woke up.

Now it was Goldsmith turn to do something so he thought "Let me adorn her with costly jewels, she will look prettier." He sat down & designed few jewelry for her. So she was adorned with precious jewels and diamonds.

She wore a diamond earring and a lovely long necklace. He to finished his work & went to sleep, finally came the Brahmin's turn.

The Brahmin thought "So beautiful this doll is .Let me breathe some life into this doll and make her alive". And so he chanted mantras and Roopmati came to life and started walking. She was so beautiful that he observed her for the rest of the night.

In the morning, when the rest three friends got up they all saw their creations and later all the four friends started fighting for Roopmati's hand. Their quarrel grew so much that they had to go to the Village Headman to solve the quarrel.

The Headman listened to the whole story and then said: " The Carpenter and Brahmin have given life to the doll , so they are like a father to her. The tailor has dressed the doll with clothes which was in respect of womanhood,so he is her brother. Only the Goldsmith can marry the doll because he has given her such costly jewelry to admire her beauty as that only a husband would do.

So it was decided that the Goldsmith should marry Roopmati . The others had to agree and so she finally got married with great pomp and splendor to the Goldsmith. All the others went back home disappointed but happy for they understood the value of relationships.

The End