Guest guest Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Knotty Slokas In Mahabharata ------------------------------ Vyasa invoked Ganapati to take down his dictation of Mahabharata which is the largest single composition containing about one lakh shlokas. Ganapati put a condition that he would keep on writing and if he has to stop for some time waiting for a shloka to be dictated, he would quit. Vyasa put a counter condition that Ganapati should write only after understanding the meaning of every shloka. Whenever Ganapati's speed of writing overtook Vyasa's speed of dictation, Vyasa would dictate a knotty shloka (called granthi). Ganapati would take some time to understand its meaning. By then Vyasa would have uttered many more shlokas. Again when Ganapati catches up with Vyasa, Vyasa would again dictate a knotty shloka. Like this, there are 8800 such shlokas. ashtau shloka-sahasraaNi ashtau shloka-shataani cha / aham vedmi, shuko vetti, sanjayo vetti vaa na vaa // 1. barhi barhiNvaajaanaaM barhiNaaM barhiNaamiva / patataam patataam ghoshaH patataam patataamiva // 2. arjunasya ime baaNaaH neme baaNaah shikhandinaH / Cchindanti mama gaatraaNi maaghamaase gavaamiva M.V.Suresh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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