In
Indian believe,when a person is dead ,the king of death ,Emardhrama will
instruct his helpers known as Emathutans to bring back their souls.
As usual one day ,Emardhrama instructed one of his
Emarthutans to go to earth and return back with the soul of a poor woman who
was about to die.This woman who sense the presence of the Emathutan begged him
to spare her life since she has a small daughter to look after. The Emathutan
took pity and left empty handed.
As he approached the Emardhramas kingdom , he saw
the woman which soul he had spared standing there. Emardhrama was furious with
the emathutans behavior .He said as he was a emathutan , there should not be
pity feelings inside of him .As such Emardhrama banished the emathutan to earth
until he is forgiven for his mistake.The Emathutan begged for forgiveness
from Emardhrama . Finally Emardhrama said he
will fully be pardoned and will return back to Emardhrama s kingdom once he
regain back to his normal complexion.
With that ,the emathutan
fell on earth and his complexion also had changed to a darker
colour.He was in deep jungle and didnt know where to go.
As the emathutan start walking , suddenly he saw a
man .He ran to him seeking help.The man took pity and gave him a piece of cloth
to cover .Emathutan thanked the man for his kindness and covered his body with
the mans cloth .The man then walked away .But since there was no where that
the emathutan know to go, he followed the man . The man reached his hut and
suddenly saw that the emathutan was also behind him .He didnt know what to
do.The mans wife asked out of curiousity who emathutna was.The man related
what had happened.He wife was indeed furious because they have barely food for
them selves and the man had brought along
another mouth to feed.Anyways after some time she took pity with the
emathutan and invited him in. She cooked porriage and served both her husband
as well as the emathutan.For the first time the the emathutan smiled and his
complexion became a bit fairer then earlier.Both the man and wife were surprise
to see the change but did not question the emathutan .
Since then,the emathutan stayed with the poor
couple.The man was a tailor and taught the emathutan how to sew.The emathutan
was a fast learner and he was quick to master the work.The man was happy .Many
people started coming to him to sew clothes and
emathutan was a skilled worker. They become to be well known and
the life style of the man started to change.
One day a messenger from the palace was sent to the
tailors house and gave a piece of materi al and was ordered to
a suit which should be long
lasting for the king within 10 days. Upon hearing this, the emathutan started
to smile the second time .His complexion become even more fairer then
before.The tailor saw this but didnt question the emathutan .The days were
passing by but still the emathutan havent started on the suit of the king.The
tailor began to get worried.If they cant present the suit when the messenger
appear on the 10th day , the tailor would be punished! On the 9th
day , the tailor saw that the emathutan didnt start on the kings suit yet and
started to scold the emathutan . He ordered that the emathutan start
immediately on sewing the kings suit.Emathutan got angry with the tailors
behavior and cut the piece of cloth and
sewed it into a sack .The tailor was alarmed but couldnt do anything since the
cloth that the kind had given had already been sewed as a sack
That night the couple was in trauma .They didnt
know how to answer the messenger once he comes the next day . The next day ,
the messenger as expected, to the surprise of the couple, the messenger said
that the king had died and the material that he had given should be sewn as a
sack.The emathutan then gave the sack that he had already sewn earlier to the
messenger.
The couple was surprised at the turn of affair but
didnt question how the emathutan knew.
The days passed by.One day a rich lady with her two
daughters visited the tailor.When the emathutan saw
one of the girl the emathutan smiled for the third time.He smiled
because one of the girl is none other then the daughter of the poor woman which
he had showed pity .His complexion changed and become his normal complexion
again.This time the couple questioned emathutan to explain.
Emathutan then explained that he smiled the first
time because despite there were lack of
food in the house yet the woman had treated him well with porriage.This had
reduced the punishment time on earth.The second time he smiled ,is because he
had already knew that the kings days were numbered and yet the messenger had
come wanting a long lasting suit.The third time he smiled is because he saw the
daughter of the woman who he had wanted to spare, having a better lifestyle
.Now the emathutan have fully been
pardoned and he thanked the couple
for their kindness and went back to
Emardhramas kingdom.
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