Guru Dronacharya - Revision history

HansaThapliyal at 12:29, 10 April 2009

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HansaThapliyal at 18:58, 9 April 2009

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HansaThapliyal at 18:07, 9 April 2009

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Dronacharya was a childhood friend of King Dhrupad, just as Sudama was of Krishna, a Brahman boy and a Kshatriya prince befriending each other in the levelling grounds of a gurukul..
But unlike Krishna, Dhrupad refused to recognise his childhood friend when he became king. They say he insulted him.. Dhrupad, father of Draupadi, must have been a powerful and secure king..But maybe his present completely held his attention, like it did Dushyants', when he forgot Shakuntala.

Durvasa left the court, feeling humiliated in his learning, his poverty, his love for a childhood memory. He went over to the Kauravas.. and became their guru. His anger fuelled his future, he secured a position of power for himself.

His wisdom was to be called in question.

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-Dronacharya was a childhood friend of King Dhrupad, just as Sudama was of Krishna, a Brahman boy and a Kshatriya prince befriending each other in the levelling grounds of a gurukul..the child Dhurpad promises his friend half his kingdom when he grows up.
+Dronacharya was a childhood friend of King Dhrupad, just as Sudama was of Krishna, a poor Brahman boy and a prince befriending each other in the levelling grounds of a gurukul..the child Dhurpad promises his friend half his kingdom when he grows up.
 Like a child who balks when he is held to a promise he made in a moment of carelessness, Dhurpad refused.. moreover, taking advantage of his adulthood, his power, he declared that he was willing to give the Brahman alms.
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 He finally made the adult Pandvas defeat Drupad and annexed half his kingdom.
-The Mahabharata is a story that explores the spectrum of power relations that the human mind is capable of. It constructs intricate relationships in an endless house of matches. Kinship and the fight over leadership of a kingdom, form odd patterns, old relationships have to be ruthlessly abandoned in the path of duty.
+He taught the Pandavas and the Kauravas, but Arjuna was his favorite pupil. He loved his own son, Ashwathama, of course, but for his inheritance, he seemed to have chosen Arjuna over him. And over Eklavya, the young tribal boy who was the only potential competition to Arjuna, but Guru Dronacharya asked for his thumb as gurudakshina, therefore asking, in exchange for the learning he gave to his student, the possibility of his student ever being able to practise his skill.
 Dronacharya presided over the killing of Arjuna's beloved warrior son, Abhimanyu, even as he might have marvelled at the boy's skill at warfare so reminscent of the young boy that Dronacharya taught once.

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-Dronacharya was a childhood friend of King Dhrupad, just as Sudama was of Krishna, a Brahman boy and a Kshatriya prince befriending each other in the levelling grounds of a gurukul..
+Dronacharya was a childhood friend of King Dhrupad, just as Sudama was of Krishna, a Brahman boy and a Kshatriya prince befriending each other in the levelling grounds of a gurukul..the child Dhurpad promises his friend half his kingdom when he grows up.
-Durvasa left the court, feeling humiliated in his learning, his poverty, his love for a childhood memory. He went over to the Kauravas.. and became their guru. His anger fuelled his future, he secured a position of power for himself.
+But unlike Krishna, Dhrupad refused to recognise his childhood friend when he became king. They say he insulted him.. Dhrupad was a powerful and secure king..But maybe the paegentry of his present completely held his attention, and he is unable to accomodate that memory into it, like Dushyants', when he cannot remember Shakuntala, who he had loved and married in the forest, when she comes to his court.
-His wisdom was to be called in question.
+Drona left the court, feeling humiliated in his learning, his poverty, his love for a childhood memory.