0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,100 Story 17 Mahabharata 1 00:00:00,101 --> 00:00:05,055 PRABHUPĀDA: …there is a nice story in this connection. 2 00:00:05,056 --> 00:00:07,260 There was one Gopal Ban. 3 00:00:07,261 --> 00:00:10,576 So he was very cunning fellow. So I… 4 00:00:10,577 --> 00:00:14,324 In the Muhammadan period in Bengal. 5 00:00:14,325 --> 00:00:19,246 So the Mohammedan Nawab asked him, 6 00:00:19,247 --> 00:00:26,121 “Gopal Ban, can you prepare a Mahābhārata in my name?” 7 00:00:26,122 --> 00:00:28,215 “Oh, yes!” 8 00:00:28,216 --> 00:00:31,085 So, “I’ll engage so many paṇḍitas, 9 00:00:31,086 --> 00:00:37,501 and they will make a Mahābhārata, your activities, your glories, everything. 10 00:00:37,502 --> 00:00:44,901 So, give me one hundred thousand rupees; just begin.” 11 00:00:44,902 --> 00:00:49,667 He was taking money, taking money, “Yes, it is going on, going on.” 12 00:00:49,668 --> 00:00:51,220 “Then when it will be published?” 13 00:00:51,221 --> 00:00:56,569 “Yes, just last few days more. 14 00:00:56,570 --> 00:00:59,166 Now, sir, everything is prepared. 15 00:00:59,167 --> 00:01:01,611 So, the one thing is, 16 00:01:01,612 --> 00:01:03,766 you have to give me information how 17 00:01:03,767 --> 00:01:08,332 …many husbands you have got your wife.” Huh? 18 00:01:08,333 --> 00:01:11,567 “How many husbands your wife has got?” 19 00:01:11,568 --> 00:01:14,136 “Ah, that is very insulting. 20 00:01:14,137 --> 00:01:16,463 What, you nonsense, you take.” 21 00:01:16,464 --> 00:01:19,826 “No; that is the main feature of Mahābhārata. 22 00:01:19,827 --> 00:01:24,172 Draupadī had five husbands, so how many husbands your wife has got? 23 00:01:24,173 --> 00:01:25,595 Tell me that; then…” 24 00:01:25,596 --> 00:01:27,062 “No, no, I don’t want that. 25 00:01:27,063 --> 00:01:29,138 I am the only husband.” 26 00:01:29,139 --> 00:01:34,479 “Then how can you write Mahābhārata?” 27 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:35,333 “I don’t want.” 28 00:01:35,334 --> 00:01:40,320 “All right.” 29 00:01:40,321 --> 00:01:45,537 “If you want Mahābhārata you must tell how many your wife has got husbands.” 30 00:01:45,538 --> 00:01:48,655 That he cannot say; so Mahābhārata finished. 31 00:01:48,656 --> 00:01:50,218 TAMĀLA KṚṢṆA: And he kept the money. Yes. 32 00:01:50,219 --> 00:01:51,897 No; that was planned already; 33 00:01:51,898 --> 00:01:55,739 he took that “I have to steal to pay so much money; Give me.” 34 00:01:55,740 --> 00:02:04,084 That’s all right. 35 00:02:04,085 --> 00:02:04,086 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com