Padishah Akbar once asked Birbal:
- Tell me, Birbal, whose hand is higher: the giver or the taker. After all, when a person gives something to another, his hand is usually higher, but does it happen the other way around?
Birbal, without thinking twice, said:
- Of course, this happens very often.
- How can the hand of the giver be lower? - the padishah asked angrily.
“But when you give me tobacco in your palm, your hand is always lower than mine.”
The padishah was amused by such a witty answer.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru