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Another tall tale that Father was fond of narrating was what he called 'Saindhava Vadha'.
While Yudhishtir, like a good student, was keenly listening to his teacher rishis about Dharama during the forest exile of Pandavas, his brothers were bunking classes and going forth to acquire weapons for the upcoming Mahabharat War.
Arjun went to forest and sat in prayer for many months asking Shivjee to appear before him and grant him Pashupatastra. At length Shivjee was pleased but wanted to test if Arjun was good enough to get that missile.
So when one day he appeared as a tribal running after a wild boar, Arjun opened his eyes and saw the boar but not the tribal following it. So he shot the boar when Shivjee too shot it at the same instant. So there was a fight between the two as to whom the boar belongs...like between India and Pakistan about the Kashmir valley.
Shivjee wins at the end (obviously) and Arjun realizes that the tribal lord was really Shivjee and prays to him...upon which Shivjee grants him the Pashupatsra. This arrow is quite unlike others. As it flies it to meet its object, it divides itself into two arrows and then four and so on like so many cancer cells.
So the arrow never misses the target but is capable of lifting it up and chasing it.
Arjun meanwhile was narrating to his drowsy wife, Subhadra, how to crack, get in and get out of Padma Vyuh (aka Chakra Vyuh) which is something like a battle formation resembling the maze at Hampton Court. And Subhadra dozes off like any wife midway, but the kid Abhimanyu in her womb listens to the first half. Meanwhile Krishna comes and drags Arjun away for a 'Chai pe Charcha' intentionally...Krishna wanted Abhimnayu to get killed in the upcoming Mahabharat War for reasons best known to him:
So, the day in the battle when this Padma Vyuh was woven by the Kauravas, Krishna once again drags Arjun away this time for a 'Beer pe Charcha', and Abhimanyu like a fool enters the maze and kills many Kauaravas (there were a 100 of them) but couldn't retreat and gets trapped. So, a chap called Saindhava (aka Jayadhrada) kills Abhimanyu with his sword while he was trying to retreat...an unethical thing to do prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
Another tall tale that Father was fond of narrating was what he called 'Saindhava Vadha'.
While Yudhishtir, like a good student, was keenly listening to his teacher rishis about Dharama during the forest exile of Pandavas, his brothers were bunking classes and going forth to acquire weapons for the upcoming Mahabharat War.
Arjun went to forest and sat in prayer for many months asking Shivjee to appear before him and grant him Pashupatastra. At length Shivjee was pleased but wanted to test if Arjun was good enough to get that missile.
So when one day he appeared as a tribal running after a wild boar, Arjun opened his eyes and saw the boar but not the tribal following it. So he shot the boar when Shivjee too shot it at the same instant. So there was a fight between the two as to whom the boar belongs...like between India and Pakistan about the Kashmir valley.
Shivjee wins at the end (obviously) and Arjun realizes that the tribal lord was really Shivjee and prays to him...upon which Shivjee grants him the Pashupatsra. This arrow is quite unlike others. As it flies it to meet its object, it divides itself into two arrows and then four and so on like so many cancer cells.
So the arrow never misses the target but is capable of lifting it up and chasing it.
Arjun meanwhile was narrating to his drowsy wife, Subhadra, how to crack, get in and get out of Padma Vyuh (aka Chakra Vyuh) which is something like a battle formation resembling the maze at Hampton Court. And Subhadra dozes off like any wife midway, but the kid Abhimanyu in her womb listens to the first half. Meanwhile Krishna comes and drags Arjun away for a 'Chai pe Charcha' intentionally...Krishna wanted Abhimnayu to get killed in the upcoming Mahabharat War for reasons best known to him:
So, the day in the battle when this Padma Vyuh was woven by the Kauravas, Krishna once again drags Arjun away this time for a 'Beer pe Charcha', and Abhimanyu like a fool enters the maze and kills many Kauaravas (there were a 100 of them) but couldn't retreat and gets trapped. So, a chap called Saindhava (aka Jayadhrada) kills Abhimanyu with his sword while he was trying to retreat...an unethical thing to do prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
Getting to know this, Arjun vows to kill Saindhava the next day before sundown. And once again by the wile and guile of Krishna, Saindhava who was hiding in a trench, looks up and Arjun sends his Pashupatastra towards Sindhava's head. And it takes up the exposed head and flies away:
It then happens that Saindhava's dad, Vridhakshtra, was doing penance on a hilltop. This chap was as notorious as his son and had acquired a boon that whoever causes to drop his son's head on the floor is instantly killed. So, had the launched arrow with the Saindhava's head dropped it on the ground, Arjun would have instantly been dead...a thing not good enough for the course of the war...Arjun had to kill his dada, Karna, again by wile later on.
So Krishna asks Arjun to send his missile so that the load it was bearing falls in the lap of the praying (with eyes closed) Vridhakshtra...which it did. When Saindhav's dad opens his eyes and sees a human head in his lap, he instinctively drops it on the floor and his own head breaks into hundred pieces...two birds with one stone:
When the multiple warhead re-entry ballistic missile:
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It then happens that Saindhava's dad, Vridhakshtra, was doing penance on a hilltop. This chap was as notorious as his son and had acquired a boon that whoever causes to drop his son's head on the floor is instantly killed. So, had the launched arrow with the Saindhava's head dropped it on the ground, Arjun would have instantly been dead...a thing not good enough for the course of the war...Arjun had to kill his dada, Karna, again by wile later on.
So Krishna asks Arjun to send his missile so that the load it was bearing falls in the lap of the praying (with eyes closed) Vridhakshtra...which it did. When Saindhav's dad opens his eyes and sees a human head in his lap, he instinctively drops it on the floor and his own head breaks into hundred pieces...two birds with one stone:
When the multiple warhead re-entry ballistic missile:
http://www.defencenews.in/news-images/5_img1281214122241.jpg
was invented lately, the Simian Brigade of Hyderabad claimed that their Hindu ancestors knew all about it many thousands of years ago and had called it Pashupatastra...
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