Episode#5
Yayati passed through a bad phase when his friend approached for his help. He asked him to provide 800 horses which he has to offer his guru Vishwamitra as Guru-Dakshina. Yayati unable to help his friend in any way, offers his daughter Madhavi.
Madhavi was blessed with the ability to bear a son and regain her virginity after every marriage. (Like Satyavati, Kunti and Draupadi were also blessed with the same boon).
The justified implications of giving away Madhavi as a gesture of help is inexplicable to the mordern age man but deep contemplation clarifies that this action was commensurate with the intention of helping Galava is an inordinate way whereby the required number of horses would be ready to be offered to the guru as pledged.
Let's see how the sweetness of reality unravelled itself...!!!
Galava sold her to three kings in sucession and bargained against two hundred special horses from each. Madhavi begot 3 sons to each king. As he was short of 200 horses, Galava presented her and 600 horses to Vishwamitra and bequeath him to accept Madhavi, Vishwamitra accepts the offer gladly much relief of his disciple.
Madhavi bore a son to Vishwamitra, Galava retired to forest and thanked Madhavi for saving him. Later Vishwamitra handed over Madhavi to Yayati who planned her swayamvara, but after all past experiences, she had lost all interest in marriage or childbearing and chose to live a hermit's life and proceeded towards forest.
At the dawn of human history when the ability to give birth to a human child was valued, man tended to respect a woman only for her power of procreation, the woman who produced more child was respected more than the childless one was socially despised. Man owned physical strength and possessive instinct, his urge to ascertain that the children under his roof are his own, enslaved women and used them as machine of procreation.
To put in nut-shell, both kuruvanshi and yaduvanshi are the lineage of Yayati - with involvement of his two sons Puru and Yadu - with lineage from his different wives.
Kuru was born after 25 generations of Puru dynasty, and after 15 generations of Kuru, Pandavas and Kauravas were born who were destined to fight the battle of Mahabharata...!
Yayati passed through a bad phase when his friend approached for his help. He asked him to provide 800 horses which he has to offer his guru Vishwamitra as Guru-Dakshina. Yayati unable to help his friend in any way, offers his daughter Madhavi.
Madhavi was blessed with the ability to bear a son and regain her virginity after every marriage. (Like Satyavati, Kunti and Draupadi were also blessed with the same boon).
The justified implications of giving away Madhavi as a gesture of help is inexplicable to the mordern age man but deep contemplation clarifies that this action was commensurate with the intention of helping Galava is an inordinate way whereby the required number of horses would be ready to be offered to the guru as pledged.
Let's see how the sweetness of reality unravelled itself...!!!
Galava sold her to three kings in sucession and bargained against two hundred special horses from each. Madhavi begot 3 sons to each king. As he was short of 200 horses, Galava presented her and 600 horses to Vishwamitra and bequeath him to accept Madhavi, Vishwamitra accepts the offer gladly much relief of his disciple.
Madhavi bore a son to Vishwamitra, Galava retired to forest and thanked Madhavi for saving him. Later Vishwamitra handed over Madhavi to Yayati who planned her swayamvara, but after all past experiences, she had lost all interest in marriage or childbearing and chose to live a hermit's life and proceeded towards forest.
At the dawn of human history when the ability to give birth to a human child was valued, man tended to respect a woman only for her power of procreation, the woman who produced more child was respected more than the childless one was socially despised. Man owned physical strength and possessive instinct, his urge to ascertain that the children under his roof are his own, enslaved women and used them as machine of procreation.
To put in nut-shell, both kuruvanshi and yaduvanshi are the lineage of Yayati - with involvement of his two sons Puru and Yadu - with lineage from his different wives.
Kuru was born after 25 generations of Puru dynasty, and after 15 generations of Kuru, Pandavas and Kauravas were born who were destined to fight the battle of Mahabharata...!
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