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Nandi Sootra
[099] MEANING -(2) Bharat, The Rock, The Condition, The Tree, The Fingerring, The Cloth, The Chemeleon, The Crow, Stool Test, The Elephant, The Jester, The Ball, The Pillar, The Kshullak, Path, The Woman, The Husband, Son.
[100] MEANING -(3) The Bee-hive, The Seal, The Number, Nanak, The Mendicant, Chetak-nidhan, Education of Archery, Economics, icchamaham, Hundred Thousand.
COMMENTARIES (098 to 100] - In the Agams are found numerous stories about spontaneous wisdom and intelligence. In this verse are listed titles of some such stories given as examples of autpattiki buddhi. The topic can be easily and clearly understood with the help of these stories
1. Bharat - Near the city of Ujjaini there was a village of acrobats, where lived an acrobat named Bharat. Leaving a son behind, his wife had died. His name was Rohak. He was a prodigious and sharp witted child. To provide proper care to the infant and look after the household, Bharat married again.
Bharat's new wife was a wicked woman and she tortured Rohak. Fed up with this treatment Rohak one day said - "Mother! You ill-treat me, is it becoming of you?" The step-mother got infuriated at these words and shouted - "Rascal! So small and still a loud mouth. I will treat a rascal like you as I wish. Do what you like."
The words of his step-mother acted like a sting and Rohak resolved to take revenge. He waited for an opportune moment. One night when he was sleeping near his father, he suddenly got up and said - "Father, look! Someone is running away." A shadow of doubt crept into Bharat's mind that his wife was not true to him. Slowly he distanced from his wife and even stopped talking to her.
Rohak's step-mother understood that all this was his doing. He had provoked his father against her she got her lesson. She spoke to Rohak affectionately - "Son, I had committed a mistake. In future I will improve my behaviour and shower my love on you." Rohak's childish anger was pacified and he looked for an opportunity to remove his father's doubt. One moonlit night he pointed at his own shadow and said - "Father! Look someone is running away." Bharat was filled with anger. He drew out his sword, took a step and asked - "Where is that rogue?" Rohak innocently pointed at his own shadow and said - "Here."
When Bharat saw the shadow he realised his mistake. He repented on his behaviour and asked his wife's pardon. The couple resumed the normal marital behaviour. Intelligent Rohak thought - "A step-mother is after all a step-mother. She may get angry at me due to some mistake of mine and may poison me some day to take revenge." Therefore he spent all his time with his father. He ate with his father and slept with him as well.
One day Bharat had to go to Ujjaini on some errand. Rohak also went with him. The little boy was enchanted with the beauty and grandeur of the city and roaming around the streets he memorised the plan of the city. When it was time to return home Bharat took Rohak with him and came out of the city. When they reached the banks of the nearby Kshipra River, Bharat remembered that he had forgotten something. He asked Rohak to sit down at the riverbank and returned to the city.
Rohak started playing with the sand and started making a model of Ujjaini. Soon he made a complete scale model of the city including its palaces. Coincidentally the king passed that way. When he arrived where Rohak had made
Aagam- 44 -NandiSootra
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Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
