gajendra_pith_story2

Once a king is pleased with a poet’s skill and promises to reward him with gold equivalent to the weight of an elephant. But that creates a challenge – how can one weigh an elephant? A brilliant minister discovers the solution. An elephant is led into a boat. The depth to which the boat dips into the water is marked. Then the elephant is led out of the boat and the boat filled with gold till it dips to the same mark. This is the weight of gold equivalent to one elephant. The king is impressed with his minister’s intelligence – and they now know how to find the weight of an elephant.