Bhaktisandesam

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Tales from Ancient India.

 

LORD KRISHNA AND THE LAPWING'S NEST

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It was the battle of Kurukshetra. The white conch shells were about

to sound, the elephants to march forward, and the attack of the

archers to commence. The moment was brief and terrible. Banners were

flying, and the charioteers preparing for the advance.

 

Suddenly a little lapwing, who had built her nest in the turf of a

hillock in the midst of the battlefield, drew the attention of the

Lord Krishna by her cries of anxiety and distress for her

young. " Poor little mother! " he said tenderly, " let this be thy

protection! " And, lifting a great elephant-bell that had fallen near,

he placed it over the lapwing's nest.

 

And so, through the eighteen days of raging battle that followed, a

lapwing and her nestlings were kept in safety in their nest, by the

mercy of the lord, even in the midst of the raging field of

Kurukshetra.

 

 

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Jai Shree Krishna !