#40e. The bet
Vishnu visited Kailash one day. Siva and Uma were playing a game of dice. Vishnu was made the judge. The bet laid was that the loser must give away all the ornaments to the winner.
Uma won the game but Vishnu told a lie that Siva had won the game. Uma got terribly enraged by this utter lie and uttered a terrible curse to Vishnu.
“You behaved like a blind man and gave a wrong judgement. May you become a blind python and live on earth!”. Siva was moved with pity and told Vishnu, “When Vinayaka wins over Gajamukha asuran in the battle, he will remove the curse laid on you and you will regain your original form”
The blind python was waiting patiently for the arrival of Vinayaka. After subduing Gajamukha asuran Vinayaka came to the place where the python was waiting for his grace. He removed the curse and Vishnu got back his original form.
A python NEVER goes in search of food.
It just gobbles up whatever comes its way.
So a blind python - which cannot see what comes near it -
might have gone hungry often and for long periods.
Was this the basis of the old adage given above???