THE MOTHER.

Once a merchant brought two cows to a king's court. Both were healthy, beautiful and almost identical in appearance.

He told the king- "Maharaj! These two cows are mother and daughter, but I do not know which is the mother and which is the daughter. 

I could not find any special difference between the two. I asked  people but no one could identify the mother and daughter between them. 

Someone told me that your minister is intelligent and will definitely get the answer to my doubt. Please solve my problem!"

The minister got up from his place and went towards the cows. He inspected both of them closely but he too could not identify. 

Now the minister was in a dilemma. He asked the king for a day's time to identify the mother and daughter.

He came home very upset. His wife  asked the minister the reason for his worry, and he told her everything.

Hearing this, his intelligent wife said- 'Oh! That is easy and I can find out.

The next day the minister took his wife to the cows. She placed some food in front of the cows. 

After a while, she told the king which is the mother and which is the daughter. People were astonished.

When the king asked her how she recognised, the minister's wife said - "After eating its food, the first cow started eating the food of the second cow and the second one left her food for the first one. 

Only a mother can do this, that is, the second one is the mother. Only a mother can stay hungry for the child. Only a mother has the qualities of sacrifice, compassion, affection and motherhood."