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Eklavaya Guru Dakshina

Episode#16 One day while practicing, he got disturbed by a barking dog, he shot several arrows in the direction of the dog and without hurting the dog, and his arrows stuck in his jaws in a manner in which the dog was unhurt but at the same time could not bark and disturb him, Arjuna saw this predicament of the dog and concluded that he must be a master-archer, he took the dog to his Guru Drona who also felt that it was a great workmanship of a skilled archer, to their great surprise it turned out to be Eklavaya, seeing Guru Drona, he fell at his feet and the sage questioned "who taught you these skills?" Eklavaya replied "You are my Guru and you are my inspiration, I have learned from you" Drona remembered that he had promised Arjuna to make him the greatest Archer of the Bharat Varsh. He had to set aside Eklavaya for he was far better than Arjuna - with Eklavaya's kind of expertise, Arjuna did not stand the remotest chance to be the best of the best. Drona