the tragic story of mohenjo-daro
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- 1. The King and His Tub
2. It all started with Janakinath.His name means Lord Rama and
he was indeed the king of the wealthy town of
Mohenjo-Daro.Janakinath was a good king and all his people liked
his rule because he was sincere and fair.Janakinath however liked
being important, as he cared very much for his people he was a very
selfish man.His parents died when he was a small boy and he took
the thrown at a very young age.He had no siblings and no relatives
at all.
3. Janakinath was walking one day with one of his servants and he
felt dirty.Janakinath ordered a bath be built in the center of the
town for all the people of the town to use.He knew that this would
take a long time but it would benefit him.He ordered all of his
servants to build him this bath that would be named after him.His
servants spent years of perfecting the bath tub while Janakinath
watched their work carefully.
4. As Janakinath grew bored he realized that the servants had
always stayed as close to him as they could and he recognized his
freedom.He began looking for women since he was one of the only
unmarried men in the town.There were many beautiful women that he
could chose from but he had in mind one woman that he had loved
forever.
5. He found her one night as his servants were working on the bath
and he talked to her.They shared stories of all kinds of stories
from past times.The bath was almost done, the servants made a
tunnel serving as a way for the water to go in and out of the
bath.It was connected to the river and was a great way to transport
the new and old water.There was a lever which controlled which way
the water went, to the bath, to the river, or nowhere.The night
before Janakinath knew the servants would once again stick to him
like glue he asked his lady to marry him, her name was
Yogita.
6. The bath was done and was about to be filled for the first
time.Janakinath pulled the lever and the bath slowly filled with
clean water.It filled and the lever was set so the water would
stay.Janakinath was the first to enter and he knew it was a good
idea to have the bath built.The next to enter was Yogita and then
everyone else who wanted to bathe entered the giant bath.Life went
on normally for Mohenjo-Daro plus the bath for a long time but as
life progressed for Janakinath he got more self centered.
7. His servants began to ignore his commands more often and not do
their work to full ability and became less fair to all the people
in the town except for Yogita.The towns people noticed this once
Janakinath limited the use of the bath for the middle and lower
class people.The people had put up with his ignorance for weeks on
end and this move pushed them too far.
8. The people of the town wanted to get revenge on Janakinath and
they knew that Yogita took a late night bath every other day.They
designed a plan to draw away their king while someone flipped the
lever to drain the tub.The next few days they talked secretly about
how they would break into the lever room without the king
knowing.Since the servants were not on either side they
helped.
9. The night of the attack came and one of the upper class members
of the town called to the king and Janakinath went.Two others
switched the lever to drain.The tub drained like a whirlpool and
sucked everything inside into the dark tunnel of rushing water
along with Yogita.Yogita was not seen again.The king returned to
the empty bath and shrieked.
10. He thought he had accidently switched the lever too far to
drain and he believed he killed his wife.Janakinath was a man of
ignorance but yet a sense of religion as well.He asked his servants
to kill him and put him in the container of a priest which was
never to be opened because he believed it would excuse his sins.The
container was sealed with cement and the king was gone.