Who is great?

WHO IS GREAT ?

   There lived once an old farmer  in a village. His name was Sunder. He had a large extent of agricultural lands. Laksmi was his wife. They had three sons and two daughters. Sunder  had very little education,  he knew only to read and write. But he was well respected by the villagers. 

   Sunder was a hard working man.  He treated the poor and rich equally. He used to resolve the family  disputes in a fair manner whenever people brought to him.  Sunder had a dog at his home.  It's name was Dyson. It was a country dog.  It was very obedient and loyal to Sunder.  Sunder too loved the dog very affectionately.  Every time before taking food Sunder used to ask his wife whether Dyson was fed? And if not, Sunder first would direct his wife to feed Dyson.  Apart from that Sunder would through a handful of rice ball to Dyson before taking food every time.  This had become his routine. Sunder was very hardly visiting other places so he was always avilabe in the village.

   Whenever Sunder was going out Dyson used to escort him upto a little distance to see him off, and would return  home.  Like that it would be found wagging its tail when he arrived at  home and would place its fore legs  on him to show it's affection. Even  Sunder's children would keep distance while talking to Sunder that was the custom followed  in those days. 
  One evening Sunder returned to home after his work. All his children and his wife were standing outside their house, Dyson was found barking continously at the house and everyone tried to silence it but went in vain. His wife  told Sunder that since you left the home in the afternoon, Dyson started barking at and we tried our best to stop but all our efforts were failed. It seemed that Dyson became mad and needed  medication.  Sunder paid close attention  to  Dyson and its activities. It had never behaved like this earlier.  Sunder looked at the direction to which Dyson was looking at it and he spotted a large snake on the narrow passage of the roof top of his tiled  house,  at once he took a long stick fitted  with knife on its tip and killed the snake after long struggle.  Everyone appriceated Dyson for its smartness and Sunder was so delighted on seeing the adventurous work of Dyson.  He scratched behind Dyson's ear and made happy and thus he shared the love with Dyson.

     As years passed by Sunder became very old and bedridden. Every day his friends, relatives and villagers visited  Sunder and enquired about his illness. Dyson too felt very sad, but  no one  under stood its feeling about its beloved master. One day Sunder died.  He was buried in a vacant place adjacent to his house.  After the burial everyone left but not Dyson.

It was  found removing soil in search of his beloved master  by its legs  from the temporary tomb put up on Sunder's corpse without knowing that  his master would never come back.  It  didn't look at the food served to it,  refused to leave the place of his master where he was lying buried, finally starved and died within two days. The family members of  Sunder buried Dyson near his master's tomb and built a small tomb for Dyson in memory of its loyalty which human beings yet to learn....