The black horse -Day 24 Vikram Vetal in modern times

Carrying Betal on his shoulders Vikram started walking towards the cremation ground while the narration of another story began.

Once upon a time lived a king called Dhavaraj. He had 2 wives, 3 daughters and a son. He was really upset that he had 3 daughters and only one son. One day while he was hunting a princess came to the Palace, who has called as princess Ranivati. She was really gorgeous, attractive and beautiful. She also goes by the name the hidden power queen, as she was really strong in battle, even though she looks feeble. When king Dhavaraj returned from his hunting, he saw princess Ranivati. He asked the princess why she had come to the Palace. The princess replied that she came to the Palace to declare war. After hearing this king Dhavraj was really shocked. While this conversation was taking place king Dhavaraj’s minister who was right around the corner had heard the entire conversation. Minister Arihant interrupted between their conversation and said that instead of having a battle why we don’t have quiz competition?

Both the team will be given 1 riddle to solve. Whoever can solve the fastest will win. King Dhavraj trusted his Minister Arihant and agreed. So, after 2 days the riddle was provided to the contestant. Now the riddle stated that ‘the rider is white the horse is black, when one gets down the next goes back’. When both of them heard this question, they were really puzzled. Both of them went to the stable to find out which white person in the palace ride the black horse. They were replied that there were over 50 black horses ridden by white people. While this all was going on his eldest daughter had found the answer and then called her father. The king asked why she had called him. The daughter replied that she knew the answer of the questions as she was trying to solve the question as she had overheard it in the meeting. When she presented this answer to everyone all of them really proud of her and her father saw how smart his daughters are.

After this Betaal as usual asked a question to Vikram as to what was the answer of riddle asked by Arihant. Vikram thought for a minute or so and then answered that the answer to the riddle was “Tawa and Roti”, Vikram also justified that the tawa is the black horse which is ridden by the white roti and when one is done, then the second one comes on, Betaal liked Vikram’s intelligence but once more Vikram opened his mouth to speak and Betaal flew away…