In which harappan city was cotton grown? To which of the following Rajput clans did the famous King Raja Bhoj belong? Who among the following Chola Kings had founded the largest dominion in South India? Three of the following literary works are the contribution of the famous king Harsha Vardhana, while the other one has been written by Banabhatta, who adorned his court. Identify the contribution of Banabhatta :. Which of the following pair of the Gupta rulers and their adopted titles is incorrectly matched?
Which of the following pairs of dynasties that ruled Kalinga and their prominent Kings is correctly matched? More General Knowledge Questions Q1. In which year Indian government has enacted the Consumer Protection Act?
The activities in primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors are. When was the Human Development Report published for the first time? Which of the following is one of the criteria of the UNDP for measuring development that is also used by the World Bank in classifying different countries? Underemployment occurs when people:. He approached Lord Ganesha and Lord Ganesha agreed to write the Mahabharata but he had one condition.
Lord Ganesha revealed his condition by saying that he would write the Mahabharata only if Sage Vyasa would recite it to him non-stop without a pause. He stated that Lord Ganesha would not write anything without fully understanding the sentence or the plot. Lord Ganesha was very quick at writing and hence he wrote at a great speed. This is where the wisdom of Sage Vyasa prevailed. He would purposely put some complex sentences in between which would take Lord Ganesha time to understand before he could write it down.
This allowed Vyasa to catch a breath and also think in his head as to how the next sentences would be framed. It is also believed that while writing at a very fast speed, Lord Ganesha broke the stylus with which he was writing the epic. But since he could not stop, he broke a piece of his tusk and continued. This selfless act of Lord Ganesha also tells us that when it comes to gaining knowledge, no amount of sacrifice is enough.
The story goes that Vyasa wanted to dictate an epic poem, the Mahabharata. He needed someone to write it down as it flowed from his mind. Nobody capable was found to exist on Earth, so he approached Ganesha or Vighna Vinayaka, the remover of obstacles, and requested him to help out. We were taught that the gods love to twist the odds for men just to see how they will react, since all creation is their divine play or lila. Since Vyasa was clever — he composed a long and complicated epic like the Mahabharata — he made a counter-condition that Ganesha had to understand every word before he wrote it down.
Ganesha was pleased to agree, secretly delighted. He broke off his own tusk to write with, as proof of goodwill, and they began the task. Every now and then, Vyasa would compose a number of verses in extremely layered and dense language. Ganesha would have to pause to think them through before putting them down on the palm-leaf pages. This allowed Vyasa to draw breath and compose more verses in his head to stay ahead. This legend was a popular teaching story to inspire focus and concentration; and its iconic reminder in daily life was the broken tusk on all Ganesha idols.
Another myth about the tusk that I saw danced out in Thailand in December occurs in the Brahmanda Purana.
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