"I dreamed we were walking on a narrow bridge between two pools," the king said to Tenalirama. "One pool was full of honey, and the other full of shit. I fell in the honey, and you fell in the shit. What a funny dream!"
All the courtiers laughed at the king's words, delighted to see their rival humiliated.
Even Tenalirama laughed, and then he said. "It's miraculous, O king! I also had the same dream, and after we fell in, I had to lick you clean, and then you had to lick me clean."
So the jester got his revenge.
Inspired by: "The Guru and the Idiot" in Folktales from India by A. K. Ramanujan
Notes: You can read about the Telugu people of southern India at Wikipedia, and you can also read about the famous jester Tenalirama.
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