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Story 17 Mahabharata
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PRABHUPĀDA: …there is a
nice story in this connection.
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There was one Gopal Ban.
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So he was very
cunning fellow. So I…
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In the Muhammadan
period in Bengal.
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So the Mohammedan
Nawab asked him,
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“Gopal Ban, can you prepare
a Mahābhārata in my name?”
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“Oh, yes!”
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So, “I’ll engage so many paṇḍitas,
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and they will make a Mahābhārata,
your activities, your glories, everything.
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So, give me one hundred
thousand rupees; just begin.”
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He was taking money, taking money,
“Yes, it is going on, going on.”
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“Then when it will be published?”
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“Yes, just last few days more.
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Now, sir, everything is prepared.
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So, the one thing is,
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you have to give
me information how
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…many husbands you
have got your wife.” Huh?
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“How many husbands
your wife has got?”
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“Ah, that is very insulting.
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What, you nonsense, you take.”
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“No; that is the main
feature of Mahābhārata.
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Draupadī had five husbands, so how
many husbands your wife has got?
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Tell me that; then…”
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“No, no, I don’t want that.
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I am the only husband.”
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“Then how can you
write Mahābhārata?”
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“I don’t want.”
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“All right.”
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“If you want Mahābhārata you must tell
how many your wife has got husbands.”
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That he cannot say; so
Mahābhārata finished.
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TAMĀLA KṚṢṆA: And
he kept the money. Yes.
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No; that was planned already;
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he took that “I have to steal to
pay so much money; Give me.”
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That’s all right.
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