Panchatantra Crows Cobra

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A pair of crows, robbed of their young each year by a cobra that lives below their tree, devise a plan: the hen crow snatches a queen's gold necklace as she bathes and drops it into the cobra's hole. The pursuing guards kill the snake to recover the gold. Moral: what strength cannot do, a stratagem can. — Panchatantra (attrib. Vishnu Sharma)