Once there lived a King by the name of Vijay Chandra in the Kingdom of Dolakpur. He was a rich, cunning, and wicked man and had the bad habit of harassing his attendants. He would take great pleasure in assigning them jobs beyond their capacity. Tired and overburdened by the King’s assignments, servants would ask him to release them from their job. And then he would chop off their right ear, and put it in a jar filled with preservatives before setting them free. The servants were helpless and many of them lost their ears, but could not raise their voice against the King. The people of Dolakpur lived in fear and terrified of their King’s whims and fancies.

One day a boy from another kingdom came to Dholakpur. He was puzzled and amused to see many people with their right ear missing. When he asked them the mystery behind the missing ear, they narrated how their King tortured his servants by chopping off their right ear.

The boy decided to take up the challenge and approached the King asking for work as his domestic help. The King, as usual, laid the condition for working at the palace. But before agreeing to King’s conditions the boy said, “ Your honour! According to your condition, you can chop my ear if I leave the job, which is agreeable to me. But I too have a condition for you. If you fire me from the job, I will demand your ear”. King laughed with contempt after hearing the boy’s condition and gave him the job at his palace as a personal attendant.