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4. Beginning of the story
• Description of Yudhisthira’s
Ashwamedha Yagna
– Grandest yagna in
human memory
– A lot of wealth spent
– Rishis
• chanting mantras
• food, clothing & cows
5. i. Two Farmers’ Story
• In the midst of Yagna
• Two farmers – to Yudhisthir
• The dispute
– Selling land
– Finding a pot of gold
– Did not take the pot of gold
• Yudhisthira – impressed by charitable nature, did not know
how to solve, Krishna’s advice – return after 3 months,
farmers agreed
6. • Farmers return
• The farmers would fight for the pot of gold
• Easy to settle the case
• Greed – generosity
• Outrage – compassion
• Aswamegh yagna – will conclude – Starts Kali
What would happen after 3 months?
7. • Dawning of a new age
• Only a quarter of the values
instituted by Prithu at the
beginning of civilization will
survive
• Man will live for pleasure
• Children will abandon
responsibility
• Women will be like men
• Men will be like women
What would happen in Kali yuga?
8. • Humans will copulate like
beasts
• Power will be respected
• Justice abandoned
• Sacrifice forgotten
• Love ridiculed
• The wise argue for the law of
the jungle
• Every victim will turn a
victimizer
What would happen in Kali yuga?
9. • Yagna completes
ii. Mongoose story
• A mongoose appears
– Half body gold
– Enters the sacrificial hall
– Jumps into the fire-pit
– Rubbed its normal side on the
charred remains of the ritual
– Then left the altar with a
disappointed look
After 3 months
• Tells reason for being
sad
• Half body turning gold
when rubbing his body
against the remains of a
ritual
10.
11. • Hope of other half turning
to gold after rubbing
against remains of
Aswamedh yagna
• Not happened
• Curiosity to know – ritual
– 3 months ago – a poor family
starved to death
– Offering their meal to a guest
Mongoose story contd…
• Mongoose rubbed on
the food offered leaves
• Surprised – turning half
of the body to gold
• Remains of Ashwmedha
Yagna fails
12. • Yudhisthira’s sacrifice
– Grand
– Less about charity
– More about royal power
– A lesser ritual
Rishis’ realization
13. Conclusion
• Even the 4 Pandavs turn bad at the beginning
of the Kaliyuga
• Only Yudhisthira cling to Dharma
• Dharma would sustain the world
• When Dharma abandoned – Pralaya - doom