Image: Hou Keng- the original and best Monkey Chief tea(Hou Kui) producing area. Source: Flickr
Monkey-Bridge
By: Noor Inayat (Khan)
- magnificent tree that bore tender white blossoms & later ladened with fruit
- chief warned the monkeys not to let any of the fruit from the branches hanging over the tree fall into the river, because then the men of the city would follow the river up the hills and find the tree, which would take all of the fruit and the monkey's would have to flee
- it, however, happened & a fishermen was the first to find it
- the fishermen asked woodcutters about the fruit & they told him it was a mango
- they set out to find the tree and came upon it
- the king made a bridge of himself and told his eighty thousand followers to walk across, but Devadatta jumped so heavily and broke the kings back
- "It is not your sword which makes you a king; it is love alone. Rule them not through power because they are your subjects; nay, rule them through love because they are your children"
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