The Tiger King Summary

The Tiger king by Kalki

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When Maharaja Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur was born, the had foretold that one day the king would actually have to die. The ten day old Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur started ; he told them that all those who were born would have to die one day, he asked them to tell the of his death. Everyone stood stunned. An infant born just ten days ago was talking in such a manner .The chief astrologer told the Prince that he was born in hour of the . As bull and tiger were enemies therefore his death would come from .
The Maharaja grew stronger and took to tiger hunting. He was overjoyed when he killed the tiger. When he told the chief astrologer about that, the chief astrologer told him that he may kill 99 tigers but he must be with the hundredth one. In ten years he killed 70 tigers .He banned the of tigers in Pratibandhpuram.The tiger had become extinct at Pratibandhpuram. So the maharaja to a royal family in a state where tiger population was rich. Thus thereby he killed 99 tigers but one was still left. There was no sign of tigers anywhere. Maharaja could not bear any more. He raised the land tax and also dismissed some of his men. There was a tiger brought later for Maharaja. Maharaja took his men for hunt. He the tiger but it missed the tiger .Maharaja did not notice that Maharaja’s men knew it but they that if they tell it to Maharaja, then they may lose their job, so they killed the tiger. But maharaja did not know that he still has one tiger left to be killed.
Maharaja had to attend his 3 year old son’s . He gifted him a tiger. The tiger was made by an unskilled man. Its surface was , as a result its sharp edge pierced into Maharaja’s . Next day the spread into his whole hand and Maharaja at last died.
Thus the fateful hundredth tiger though a wooden one was the cause of the Maharaja’s death and proved the of the astrologer correct.