Yadav Kanya

Chapter 17

After such an emotionally heavy afternoon, the family relaxed just chatting around. The crowed were subdued not their usual self.
Anya decided to bring some sort of normalcy. She had all the Pandavas in a circle with the elders in the middle. She said she wanted to play a game. She explained that she will give various hypothetical situations and each of them need to tell a solution or what they would do starting from Yudhishthir. The elders will be the judge of it.

Everyone agreed and looked forward for it since it was a mentally stimulating game.

Ananya started off with few simple situations which was perfectly answered in various combination by the brothers.

Then Anya asked,
"Agar koi sut jathi ka 6 varsh ka balak mantra slok bohot saraltha se bol pa raha hai..aur isse dekhar kuch brahmin bohoth krodith hothe hai..aur woh uss chotte bache ke muh mein pigale hua sonna daal na chahathe hai dandh ke roop mein..kya woh sahi hai?"

(If some small 6 year old boy belonging to Sut caste can say mantra slok with great ease...and seeing this, some brahmins are extremely angry..and they want to punish that small kid by pouring molten gold in his mouth..is that right?)

Anya specifically asked this situation. While this 'tale' of Shon shown in the Surya Putra Karn show was completely fictional and according to the scriptures, Shon was killed by Arjun in the Kurukshetra war not as a child..She wanted to see what they will do.

Arjun frowned and asked,
"Isme galath kya hai? Agar uss bache ko slok saraltha se aatha hai...toh woh achi bath hai na? Jyesht agar Brahmino ne iss ke karan uss balak ko ithna kator dandh diya...Aur yeh apradh bhi toh nhi hai..toh kya woh ek Brahmin hoke..adharm nhi kar rahe ?"

(What is wrong in this? If that kid can easily recite sloks...then it's a good thing right? Jyesht if those Brahmins punished that kid with such cruelty for this reason...and this is not a crime either..aren't they committing adharm inspite of being a Brahmin?)

Arjun asked looking at Bheem and Yudhishthir. While the twins nodded their heads agreeing with Arjun looking shocked at such an imaginary situation.

Bheem angrily said,
"Yeh sab toh Sach mein nhi ho raha hai...isliye mein chupp hoon...agar yeh mere samne hotha toh mein unn Brahmano ke haath pair thodd deta!"

(These things are not happening in real..that's why I am quite..if this was happening in front of me then I would break those Brahmans hands and legs!)

Yudhishthir nodded and said,

"Humare Vedo ke anusaar ekk vyathi ke karm se uska varn nischith kiya jatha hai..arthath- ekk Sut ka putr ...uske karm ke karan ek Brahmin ban saktha hai...iss halath mein keval Un Brahmano ki dosh aur adharm dikh thi hai...uska dandh...unhe avarn bana ya unhe Shudhra bana saktha hai..."

(According to our vedas, a person's karm decides his varna...meaning- a Sut's son...with his Karm can become a Brahmin...in this situation only those Brahmins are at fault and are adharmis..the punishment for this can vary from being demoted to Shudhra or be casted out of the varna system( avarn)..)

Anya nodded her head satisfied with the answer and Pandu smiled proudly.

Anya took a deep breath and came to one of the important events.

"Mano...ki aap sab ke jaise..5 bhai hai..woh Van mein rahe the hai..unki Matha ke sath..aur woh Brahmin parivar hai...ek din unn Pancho mein se ekk ne kisi Rajkumari ka Swayamvar jeeth liya aur unki mangethar ke saath unke Maa se milane lekar aye hue the...jis kshan woh unki kuti ke paas padhare the...unki Ma Pooja mein vyasth thi...unki aanke bandh thi aur unke Putro ko sirf unka Peet dikh raha tha..5 mein sabse chotte ne bola...'Ma...dekho daan mein kya mila hai' aur unki Ma ..bina dekhe...bina samjhe yeh bol diya..'Jo bhi mila hai..5 mein bant do..' aur un Pancho Bhaiyo ne...uss Rajkumari se vivah kar li...kya yeh uchith hai...?"