Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Guru for the Kurus”. )
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 46 ☆
☆ Guru for the Kurus ☆
The princes of Hastinapur one fine day
Came out of the city to Vita-danda play
While they thus enjoyed the game, the vita fell
Into a well, to their horror and dismay.
The lost vita unable to reclaim
The princes looked at the well with disgust
When their glance fell upon a Brahmin
Who challenged them and cussed
“Shame on your courage, shame on merits;
That princes of Bharat’s race can’t vita recover!
Watch me salvage the lost vita and also my ring,”
Said the Brahmin and his ring into well hurled.
A cluster of reeds he uprooted
Some mantras and chants expressed
Made a chain by joining one reed to the next
With a smile, the lost vita he fetched
Then, an arrow he fired next from his bow
And with a lightning speed, the ring pierced
Came out the ring with the arrow
Holding it in his hand, the Brahmin sneered.
The speechless princes looked at him in disbelief
Saluted him for his expertise unique
Asked him his name and his history
“Ask Bheeshma!” he replied with mystique.
When Bheeshma was informed of the act
He knew, that the Brahmin was none other than Drona
Invited him with due respect to the Palace
A guru for the Kurus had been found to their skills hone!
© Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra
Pune, Maharashtra
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very nicely described old mythological incident in your words, loved reading it