King Krishna Raya built a beautiful mansion. He arranged for the painting of  the walls of the mansion with appropriate pictures. After the completion of the painting, the painter reported to the king.

One day,  King , his ministers and others went to the mansion. He  was watching the paintings.Suddenly Tenali raman noticed a picture which  was painted sideways had  limbs of only one side.   The king said  "You must imagine it all"

Tenali Raman with apparent sincerity said, "Yes  now, I  understand it.

After a long time, Raman told the king" Sir from  the day we visited your new mansion, I have started practicing doing painting. I have become an expert in it now and I will  be pleased if you could witness some of my beautiful executions." The king then entrusted to him the entire responsibility of painting the  walls of a mansion. He instructed Raman to remove the old paintings  and in its place to paint new ones.

Raman then rubbed away all the paintings. He painted a nail in one place, a finger in  another place, a hand in a third, thus he filled the whole house  with his paintings and completely spoiled its look. He then went to  King and said: "Sir, I have finished all my paintings"

The King taking visits the building  with  several people. On seeing the pictures, he said, "Raman I dont' see any beautiful paintings. I see only odd limbs  and fragments."

Raman said: "You must imagine all the other portions to  exist on the other side. It seems you have forgotten that obvious thing?"
On  hearing Raman's reply, the king felt that the same words which he said to Raman  long back was turning back to his ears. He left the place without  making any comment.