Mahabharata Episode 7: Drona’s Revenge

The Stories of Mahabharata

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Hinduism, Arts, Drama, Audio-drama, History, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Performing Arts, India, Mythology, Storytelling

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🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Drona takes his revenge on Drupada

The stories of Mahabharata are not only about kings and gods and demons. It is also a tale of ethics, morality and politics. The needs and conflicts that drive each character are the same that drives us today. The great weapons teacher Drona Acharya was a Brahmin. A Brahmin was supposed to have the noblest of qualities and free of petty politics and trivialities of life. Their main purpose in life was to acquire wisdom and spread knowledge to their pupils. But Drona, had his own axe to grind. He became the royal weapons teacher of the Kuru princes with a single objective in mind. He wanted to take his revenge on Drupada, the King of Panchala, for the insult he had to tolerate in Drupada's court. We also learn how the Kaurava brothers start planning for their next step to eliminate their arch rivals, the Pandavas.

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0:00.0	The stories of Mohabharata retold by Shudip the Barmick.
0:28.0	Welcome dear friends to another episode of The Stories of Mahabharata. During the last episode we heard about the Grand Show of Arms by the Curu Princess and the arrival of
0:36.2	Karna into the arena of the Mahabharata. Soon after the exhibition, Drona called his students and said,
0:59.7	Boys, you have formally completed your training, and I have taught you all that I could.
1:07.0	You have demonstrated your skills to your elders, and to the citizens of Hastinapur. And from their applause and cheers it was quite evident that they were more than satisfied with
1:17.9	their performance and they have passed you with honors. But to graduate you have one more task to
1:25.0	one more task to complete. You have to pay me your guru Dakshina my fees.
1:31.0	Yudishtira said,
1:33.0	Kuru d'Eve, please let us know what you want.
1:36.0	We'll scour the heaven and the earth to fetch it for you.
1:40.0	Drona said, very well then, here is what I want from you.
1:45.0	Go to the kingdom of Panchal and bring me King Drupad as a captive.
1:52.0	Heudishtira was surprised to hear this.
1:56.0	Trona noticed and said,
1:58.0	You must be wondering why I am making such a strange request.
2:02.0	Let me tell you why.
2:05.0	When I was a young boy and was studying at Rishi Agnivacious School,
2:12.0	Drupad, the Panchal Prince, At Rishi Agnivesha School,
2:12.7	Drupad, the Panchal Prince, was there too.
2:16.2	We were very good friends.
2:18.0	In fact, he was my best friend.
2:21.0	One day, he told me, Trona, you are my best friend, and there is nothing in the world that I cannot do for you.
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