Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Jataka Tales: Battle of Wits

Battle of Wits

This comic was about a young boy who was born into a rich family after the king dreamt of a large flame. The Kings people told him that the flame represented a special boy who would be born and come to be smarter than the four of the kings people combined. As the boy grows up he shows some examples of being intellectually superior to his peers. Eventually word of this boy gets back to the king and the king decides to do some surveillance on this boy. Overtime one of the kings men comes back with a story regarding this boys actions they conjure up a reason as to why this is just normal behavior. The king senses that his men are trying to cover something up so he goes to meet the boy himself. When the king finally gets to meet the boy he tells him to sit down. The boys father stands up and the boy sits where he was. The king takes this as offensive however the boy was doing it to prove his point that age does not correlate to wisdom.








Battle of Wits By Yagya Sharma, Ram Waeerkar, and Anant Pai from the reserves at the Bizzell Memorial Library

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