In a popular story, emperor Akbar asks his courtiers about the punishment that should be meted out to the character who had dared pull his moustache. The imperial court immediately explodes into a fit of collective rage. Everyone agrees that the perpetrator should be given capital punishment of the harshest order.
With a disarming smile, Birbal pleads that the offender be rewarded with a sweet, for nobody other than the emperor’s grandson would dare do such a thing.
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