[3/21, 8:15 AM] Jagadeesh ChandraKrishnan: வரலாறு உண்மையா?*
முகம்மது கஜினி பற்றி முதன்முதலாக நான் நடுநிலைப்பள்ளியில் படிக்கும்போது அறிந்தேன்
இது எனக்கு பள்ளியில் கூறப்பட்டது
அவன் இந்தியா மீது 19 முறை படையெடுத்துள்ளான்
அதில் 18 முறை தோல்வியைத் தழுவினான்
18வது முறை அவன் தோற்று ஓடிய போது உயிருக்கு பயந்து ஒரு குகையில் ஒளிந்துகொண்டான்
அவனால் வேறு ஒன்றும் செய்ய இயலாததால்
அப்பொழுது அக்குகையில் சிலந்தி வலைபின்னுவதைக் கண்டான்
அது ஓர் மழைக்காலம் சிலந்தி ஈரமான பாறையில் வலை பின்னுவதால் வழுக்கி விழுகிறது
ஆனாலும் மீண்டும் மீண்டும் முயன்று வலைபின்னிக்கொண்டிருக்கின்றது
அவனுக்கு ஓர் நம்பிக்கை எழுந்தது
அவன் நினைத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தான்
பதினெட்டு முறை படையெடுத்தும் தோற்றுவிட்டோம்
ஆயிரக்கணக்கானவர்கள் போரில் கொல்லப்பட்டுவிட்டனர்
அவனது முழு வாழ்க்கையும் வீணாகிவிட்டது
அவன் தோற்றது இந்திய எல்லையோர. ஒற்றை மனிதனான #பிருத்திவிராஜ்_சவுகான்*
என்பவனிடம்
இந்திய எல்லையோர மன்னன் பிருத்விராஜ் சவுகான்
முகம்மது கஜினி தற்கொலை செய்துகொள்ள எண்ணினான்
தனது மக்கள் முகத்தில் முழிக்க அஞ்சினான்
முகம்மது கஜினி இந்திய எல்லையோர நாட்டின் அரசன்
அக்காலத்தில் செல்வசெழிப்பு மிகுந்திருந்தது,
மக்கள் தொகை வெகு குறைவு
தற்போதோ 800 கோடி மக்கள்
முகம்மது கஜினி படையெடுக்கவே தேவையில்லை
அவனுக்கென்று செழிப்பான நாடு இருந்தது
ஆனாலும் அவன் திருப்தியடையாததால்
இந்தியாவை ஆக்ரமிக்க எண்ணினான்
ஆனால் அது தற்செயலானது
பிருத்வி முகம்மது கஜினியை ஒரு பொருட்டாகவே நினைக்கவில்லை
18 முறை தோற்று ஓடியவன் அவன்
இனி அவன் சண்டைக்கே வரமாட்டான்
தோல்வி அவமானத்தால் தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்டிருப்பான்
இனி அவன் வரவே போவதில்லை
என நினைத்து தனது படையை கலைத்துவிட்டான்
அப்பொழுது எதிர்பாரா நேரத்தில் முகம்மது கஜினி வென்றுவிட்டான்
பிருத்வியிடம் தோற்று தற்கொலை செய்து கொள்ள நினைத்தபோது
சிலந்தி அவனுக்கு மாபெரும் நம்பிக்கை கொடுத்தது
இந்தச் சிறிய உயிரினமே இத்தனை முறை தோற்றும் முயலுகின்றபோது
நான் ஏன் மீண்டும் முயற்சிக்க கூடாது என?
மீண்டும் ஒருமுறை அவன் படையெடுத்தான்
அதில் அவன் வெற்றியடைந்தான்
இதை எனக்கு வாத்தியார் கூறி மனதை தளரவே விடக்கூடாது
முயற்சியை கைவிடக்கூடாது முயற்சித்தால் வெற்றிபெறலாம் எனக்கூறினார்
அப்பொழுது நான் கூறினேன்
இந்த முகம்மது கஜினி ஓர் முட்டாள்
முகம்மது கஜினிக்கு பக்கத்து நாட்டை ஆக்ரமிக்கும் எண்ணம் வந்ததே தவறு
அதுவும் அவர்கள் தொல்லை எதுவும் கொடுக்காமல் அமைதியாக வாழ்ந்துகொண்டிருக்கும் போது
முகம்மது கஜினியை பலமுறை தோற்று ஓடச்செய்த பிருத்விராஜ் சவுகான் நினைத்திருந்தால் முதல் முறையை முகம்மது கஜினியின் நாட்டைப்பிடித்திருக்கலாம்
இரண்டாவது முறை கூட முகம்மது கஜினி படையெடுக்க வாய்ப்பே இருந்திருக்காது
ஆனால் பிருத்திவிராஜ் சவுகான்
ஓர் உயர்ந்த மனிதர்
அதனால் அவர் அது பற்றி சிந்திக்கவுமில்லை, முகம்மது கஜினியை ஒரு பொருட்டாகவே நினைக்கவுமில்லை
பிருத்வியின் அமைச்சர்கள் முகம்மது கஜினியை கொன்று அவனது நாட்டை ஆக்ரமியுங்கள்
இல்லையெனில் இவன் தொடர்ந்து இதேதான் செய்வான் எனக் கூறினார்கள்
ஆனால் பிருத்வி அதை ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளவில்லை
எனது படை எந்த நாட்டையும் ஆக்ரமிக்க அல்ல
முட்டாள்கள் எவரேனும் தொல்லை கொடுத்தால் விரட்டவே எனக்கூறிவிட்டான்
நான் வாத்தியாரிடம் கூறினேன்
நீங்கள் பள்ளியில் வரலாறு எனும் பெயரில் வன்முறையை விதைக்கிறீர்கள்
நான் எட்டுக்கால் பூச்சியை கூட மன்னித்துவிடுவேன், ஆனால் முகம்மது கஜினியை மன்னிக்கவே மாட்டேன்
பூச்சிகளை தள்ளிவிட்டால் திரும்ப அதன் இடத்திற்கு வருவது அதன் இயல்பு
ஆனால் முகம்மது கஜினி இப்படி செய்ததன் மூலம் தனது மனிதத்தன்மையையே இழந்துவிட்டான்
மேலும் கஜினி பிருத்வியை கைது செய்தவுடன் அவனது இரண்டு கண்களையும் குருடாக்கி கைவிலங்கு போட்டுவிட்டான்
காரணம் அவனது பயம்
பிருத்வியை கோர்ட்டில் நிறுத்தினான்
அப்பொழுதும் பிருத்வியின் மேல் உள்ள பயத்தினால் மேலே பால்கனியில் மூலையில் ஒளிந்து கொண்டான்
பிருத்வி சவுகான் இந்த உலகிலேயே மிகச்சிறந்த வில்வீரன்
கண்கள் குருடாக்கப்பட்டு கைவிலங்கிடப்பட்ட நிலையிலும்
முகம்மது கஜினியின் குரலை வைத்தே
அச்சபையில் அவன் இருக்கும் இடத்தை கணித்து முகம்மது கஜினியின் மேல் அம்பெய்து கொன்றான்.
அம்பு சரியாக முகம்மது கஜினியின் மார்பில் பாய்ந்திருந்தது.
வரலாறுகள் அனைத்தும் திரிபுகளே
அனைத்தையும் கக்கூசில் தான் போட வேண்டும்
From Personality to Individuali
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In my middle school I heard for the first time about a Mohammedan conqueror of India, Mahmud Gaznavi.
He attacked India nineteen times and he was defeated eighteen times.
When he was defeated the eighteenth time he was hiding in a cave, and he saw a spider trying to weave its net in the front of the cave.
He was just hiding there with nothing to do, so he started looking at the spider and its efforts. It was raining, and the stones were very slippery.
The spider went on falling; coincidentally he fell eighteen times but he succeeded on the nineteenth.
Mahmud suddenly became optimistic.
He had been thinking to stop this foolish effort. Eighteen times... his whole life he has wasted, thousands of people have been killed to no purpose.
He had been defeated again and again by a single man, Prithviraj Chauhan – who was on the border of India; he was the ruler of the frontier of India.
Mahmud was never able to enter the country because just on the border he was defeated, and by a single man.
It was really too much – he was thinking to commit suicide, because ”I am no longer able to show my face to my people.”Mahmud was the king of his own kingdom, there was no need to invade India.
But nothing satisfies,nothing is enough; it is always less than you want, and there is always much more that is available.
He had a small kingdom, and just by its side was this vast country, India.
It was immensely rich atthat time – it was called the Golden Bird in those days – because the population was very small,only twenty million people.
Now there are more than seven hundred million people. That was at thelast count; right now there must be nearabout eight hundred million.
Mahmud gained confidence. He said, ”If a small creature like a spider has such tremendous optimism... am I inferior to this spider?
I will try one time more.” And what a coincidence! – On the nineteenth time he succeeded.
In fact he succeeded because Prithviraj Chauhan had simply dropped the idea that this man would have the courage to invade again.
Eighteen times defeated...with what face could he come back again?
So Prithviraj Chauhan simply dropped the idea that there was going to be any invasion.
All the preparations that he had been making continually for the eighteen invasions were dropped.
It wasno longer an emergency. Mahmud was the only enemy on the borders of Prithviraj Chauhan’s land– and he was crushed.
Prithviraj Chauhan also thought, ”In such a situation I would have committed suicide.
Any man with just a little bit of self-respect would rather die than be defeated eighteentimes.” So he simply dropped the idea.
The army was dispersed,p sent back to work, and Mahmud invaded at a time when he was not expected at all.
He won.
This story was told to me in my class by the teacher of history.
He said, ”This is the way one should be.
Never be pessimistic.
One never knows: if this time you fail, don’t be worried; next time perhaps you will succeed, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
But never lose heart; to the last breath go on struggling.
”I stood up and told my teacher, ”Please forgive me. I think this man Mahmud was an idiot.
In the first place, to invade somebody for no reason....” Those people had not committed any crime, and infact they were powerful enough – they had defeated him eighteen times – to have invaded him.
But Prithviraj Chauhan never went beyond his borders. He could have defeated Mahmud, thrown him out and come back.
But he never invaded, otherwise it would have been the simplest thing to do.If the enemy is defeated then why leave him his kingdom?
He could have finished this man Mahmudin the first attack. He could have taken over his kingdom and there would have been no chance for Mahmud to attack again.
But Prithviraj Chauhan was a man of far superior humanity; Mahmud was never attacked.
Prithviraj Chauhan was told again and again by his prime minister and court people,The best way is to finish this man and take his kingdom.
If you leave him, within two or three years he will again gather forces and be back, and again we will have to fight.
This is strange why do you leave him be?”
But Prithviraj Chauhan said, ”Those people of his kingdom have not done any wrong to us nor done any harm to us.
How can I invade them?
My army is not to invade countries, it is only for those rare moments when some fool attacks us.
Then it is a defense force.” He was a man of a sophisticated mind, a man who could see that this was stupid. He said, ”Don’t be worried. This man, sooner or later, is going to drop the idea.
”I told my teacher, ”Don’t praise Mahmud in front of me and don’t tell me,’He was such a great optimist and you should be like him.’
I can forgive the spider, nobody expects a spider to have any intelligence, and I can certainly say that the spider was not counting the number of times that he had fallen.
He may not have even been aware of what was happening.”Spiders, ants, and those kind of people – you throw them away, and by a strange logic they will immediately run back towards you. The whole room is available, but from wherever you throw them they will run back in exactly the same direction.
What stubbornness!
If they have some intelligence,at least that direction has to be avoided. It is possible for it to escape anywhere... but strange, you go on hitting a spider and it will come back again towards you.
”That spider was not counting, was not optimistic.
This was just Mahmud’s old ego finding someexcuse again, finding some way to go to his people and say,’Don’t be worried – perhaps this time we will win.
And one never knows about tomorrow, so let us try once more.’ But don’t tell me that this Mahmud was an ideal person.
To me he is an ugly man, just a spider. I don’t count him among human beings.
And if this is going to be taught in the history class, then it is not for me. You are teaching us in a clever way to fight, to destroy, to kill, to put others lower than ourselves.
”Parents go on teaching from one’s very childhood, ”Look at our neighbor’s boy – he has come firs tin the school.
And what have you been doing for the whole year?
Don’t you have any intelligence?”
In the class they will be telling you the same.
They will give gold medals to those who come first and top the whole school or the whole college or the whole university.
My parents and my teachers in the school used to say, ”You can easily be always at the top, but you never take any care about the examinations, you don’t care about examinations.”
They all said, ”Why don’t you care about the examination?”
I said, ”For the simple reason that I don’t want to be part of a jealous circle. I don’t want to be in the game of comparison. It does not matter to me whether I pass or whether I fail; it will not make anydifference to me. If I come first, good; if I come last, even better – because to be the first seems tome a little violent because you have taken somebody’s joy.
And to me it is not a joy at all so I am simply wasting the place; somebody else could have been there who is now second to me, and he would have immensely enjoyed it.
Perhaps in the rest of his life he may not find anything else to enjoy, and this chance I have destroyed and I am not enjoying it anyway.
”So it will be better if I am last. At least I will have the solace that I have not spoiled anybody’s career,I have not been violent, pushy; I have not tried to invade somebody else’s space – nobody is behind me.
And because there is nobody behind me, I cannot feel superior.”And there is the logic, simple logic: if you don’t feel superior, you can’t feel inferior.
They both come together, they both go together. If you drop one, you cannot save the other.
If you don’t feel superior to anybody, how can you feel inferior to anybody? – you simply feel yourself!
But Mahmud was not a man, he was just animalistic. He caught Prithviraj Chauhan; not only that,he took out both his eyes.
Prithviraj was a very beautiful man, and this was Mahmud’s revenge for being defeated eighteen times: he blinded him.
But Prithviraj Chauhan was a great archer. His court poet, a friend, got imprisoned with him,knowingly, to help him. When Chauhan and this poet were brought into the court, Mahmud was sitting in the balcony high above.
He was still afraid of this man although he was blind and chained. What fear! But the man had defeated him eighteen times and thrown him out of the country, not even bothering to imprison him.
Must have been a lion!
And the poet said to Mahmud, ”You don’t know Prithviraj. I would like to tell you that there is none in the whole world who is such a master of archery as Prithviraj is.
Before you kill him, give him achance to show his art.
”But Mahmud said, ”Now he is blind, how can he be a great archer? He may have been.”The poet said, ”Don’t be worried. He is such a great archer that just the sound is enough for him to hit the target.”
And all this talk was going on so that Prithviraj could figure out where Mahmud was sitting from the sound of his voice.
And he killed Mahmud. Mahmud was thinking that he was going to show his skill in the art of archery but Prithviraj simply killed him from the sound, with an arrow exactly in the heart.
I told my history teacher, ”Your history is just a history of crime, and you are trying to make everybody a criminal.
Can’t you find some innocent human beings and talk about them and teach us that these were the real, authentic people?”
But no, history is full of all these other people. All the history of the whole world needs to be flushed down the toilet, so that we can start from scratch.
Then we can be ourselves – because no comparison will exist.
By
Jagadeesh Krishnan psychologist and international Author
[3/21, 8:15 AM] Jagadeesh ChandraKrishnan: Is History True? *
I first came to know about Mohammad Ghajini when I was in middle school
This is what I was told at school
He has invaded India 19 times
He lost 18 times
For the 18th time when he was defeated he hid in a cave fearing for his life
Because he could do nothing else
Then he saw a spider web in the air
It is a rainy season spider slips and falls as it weaves its web on a wet rock
But it keeps trying again and again
He had a hope
He was thinking
We failed to invade eighteen times
Thousands were killed in the war
His whole life was wasted
He lost the Indian frontier. Single man #Prithiviraj_Chowkan *
To
Prithviraj Chauhan, King of the Indian Frontier
Mohammad Ghajini thought of committing suicide
He was afraid to sink in the face of his people
Mohammad Ghajini was the king of the Indian frontier country
Wealth was plentiful at that time,
The population is very small
Currently 800 crore people
There is no need for Mohammad Ghajini to invade
There was a prosperous country for him
But because he was not satisfied
Intended to invade India
But it was accidental
Prithvi did not think of Mohammad Ghajini as an object
He has lost 18 times
He will never fight again
He would have committed suicide out of shame of failure
He's not going to come anymore
Thought and disbanded his army
Then in an unexpected moment Mohammad Ghajini won
When Prithvi lost and thought of committing suicide
The spider gave him great hope
This is the little creature that has been trying so hard to appear so many times
Why should I not try again?
Once again he invaded
In which he succeeded
Vathiyar should not let me relax by saying this
He said that you can succeed if you try not to give up
Then I said
This Mohammad Ghajini is an idiot
It was a mistake to think of invading the country next to Mohammad Ghajini
That too while they are living quietly without giving anything away
If Prithviraj Chauhan, who had defeated Mohammad Ghajini many times, had thought, he might have captured Mohammad Ghajini's country for the first time.
Even a second time, Mohammad Ghajini would not have had a chance to invade
But Prithviraj Chauhan
A noble man
So he did not think about it and did not think of Mohammad Ghajini as an object
Prithviraj's ministers kill Mohammad Ghajini and invade his country
Otherwise they said Ivan would continue to do the same
But Prithvi did not accept it
My force is not going to invade any country
Fools have said to drive away if anyone harasses them
I told the guy
You are sowing violence in the name of history in school
I will forgive even the octopus, but I will never forgive Mohammad Ghajini
It is the nature of the insects to return to their place when they are pushed away
But Mohammad Ghajini lost his humanity by doing so
And when Ghajini arrested Prithvi, he blindfolded both his eyes and handcuffed him
The reason is his fear
Prithvi was stopped in court
Even then Prithvi hid in the corner on the balcony above in fear
Prithviraj Chauhan is the greatest archer in the world
Even when the eyes are blinded and handcuffed
Keep the voice of Mohammad Ghajini
Predicting his whereabouts in fear, he shot and killed Mohammad Ghajini.
The arrow landed right on Mohammad Ghajini's chest.
Histories are all distortions
Everything has to be put in the toilet
From Personality to Individuali
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In my middle school I heard for the first time about a Mohammedan conqueror of India, Mahmud Gaznavi.
He attacked India nineteen times and he was defeated eighteen times.
When he was defeated the eighteenth time he was hiding in a cave, and he saw a spider trying to weave its net in the front of the cave.
He was just hiding there with nothing to do, so he started looking at the spider and its efforts. It was raining, and the stones were very slippery.
The spider went on falling; coincidentally he fell eighteen times but he succeeded on the nineteenth.
Mahmud suddenly became optimistic.
He had been thinking to stop this foolish effort. Eighteen times ... his whole life he has wasted, thousands of people have been killed to no purpose.
He had been defeated again and again by a single man, Prithviraj Chauhan - who was on the border of India; he was the ruler of the frontier of India.
Mahmud was never able to enter the country because just on the border he was defeated, and by a single man.
It was really too much - he was thinking to commit suicide, because ”I am no longer able to show my face to my people.” Mahmud was the king of his own kingdom, there was no need to invade India.
But nothing satisfies, nothing is enough; it is always less than you want, and there is always much more that is available.
He had a small kingdom, and just by its side was this vast country, India.
It was immensely rich atthat time - it was called the Golden Bird in those days - because the population was very small, only twenty million people.
Now there are more than seven hundred million people. That was at the thelast count; right now there must be nearabout eight hundred million.
Mahmud gained confidence. He said, “If a small creature like a spider has such tremendous optimism ... am I inferior to this spider?
I will try one more time. ” And what a coincidence! - On the nineteenth time he succeeded.
In fact he succeeded because Prithviraj Chauhan had simply dropped the idea that this man would have the courage to invade again.
Eighteen times defeated ... with what face could he come back again?
So Prithviraj Chauhan simply dropped the idea that there was going to be any invasion.
All the preparations that he had been making continuously for the eighteen invasions were dropped.
It was no longer an emergency. Mahmud was the only enemy on the borders of Prithviraj Chauhan’s land– and he was crushed.
Prithviraj Chauhan also thought, “In such a situation I would have committed suicide.
Any man with just a little bit of self-respect would rather die than be defeated eighteentimes. ” So he simply dropped the idea.
The army was dispersed, p sent back to work, and Mahmud invaded at a time when he was not expected at all.
He won.
This story was told to me in my class by the teacher of history.
He said, “This is the way one should be.
Never be pessimistic.
One never knows: if this time you fail, don’t be worried; next time perhaps you will succeed, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
But never lose heart; to the last breath go on struggling.
”I stood up and told my teacher,” Please forgive me. I think this man Mahmud was an idiot.
In the first place, to invade somebody for no reason .... ”Those people had not committed any crime, and infact they were powerful enough - they had defeated him eighteen times - to have invaded him.
But Prithviraj Chauhan never went beyond his borders. He could have defeated Mahmud, thrown him out and come back.
But he never invaded, otherwise it would have been the simplest thing to do.If the enemy is defeated then why leave him his kingdom?
He could have finished this man Mahmudin the first attack. He could have taken over his kingdom and there would have been no chance for Mahmud to attack again.
But Prithviraj Chauhan was a man of far superior humanity; Mahmud was never attacked.
Prithviraj Chauhan was told again and again by his prime minister and court people, The best way is to finish this man and take his kingdom.
If you leave him, within two or three years he will again gather forces and be back, and again we will have to fight.
This is strange why do you leave him be? ”
But Prithviraj Chauhan said, “Those people of his kingdom have not done any wrong to us nor done any harm to us.
How can I invade them?
My army is not to invade countries, it is only for those rare moments when some fool attacks us.
Then it is a defense force. ” He was a man of a sophisticated mind, a man who could see that this was stupid. He said, “Don’t be worried. This man, sooner or later, is going to drop the idea.
”I told my teacher,” Don’t praise Mahmud in front of me and don’t tell me, ‘He was such a great optimist and you should be like him.’
I can forgive the spider, nobody expects a spider to have any intelligence, and I can certainly say that the spider was not counting the number of times that he had fallen.
He may not even even be aware of what was happening. ”Spiders, ants, and those kind of people - you throw them away, and by a strange logic they will immediately run back towards you. The whole room is available, but from wherever you throw them they will run back in exactly the same direction.
What stubbornness!
If they have some intelligence, at least that direction has to be avoided. It is possible for it to escape anywhere ... but strange, you go on hitting a spider and it will come back again towards you.
”That spider was not counting, was not optimistic.
This was just Mahmud’s old ego finding someexcuse again, finding some way to go to his people and say, ‘Don’t be worried - perhaps this time we will win.
And one never knows about tomorrow, so let us try once more. ’But don’t tell me that this Mahmud was an ideal person.
To me he is an ugly man, just a spider. I don’t count him among human beings.
And if this is going to be taught in the history class, then it is not for me. You are teaching us in a clever way to fight, to destroy, to kill, to put others lower than ourselves.
”Parents go on teaching from one’s very childhood,” Look at our neighbor’s boy - he has come firs tin the school.
And what have you been doing for the whole year?
Don’t you have any intelligence? ”
In the class they will be telling you the same.
They will give gold medals to those who come first and top the whole school or the whole college or the whole university.
My parents and my teachers in the school used to say, "You can easily be always at the top, but you never take any care about the examinations, you don't care about examinations."
They all said, "Why don't you care about the examination?"
I said, “For the simple reason that I don’t want to be part of a jealous circle. I don’t want to be in the game of comparison. It does not matter to me whether I pass or whether I fail; it will not make anydifference to me. If I come first, good; if I come last, even better - because to be the first seems tome a little violent because you have taken somebody’s joy.
And to me it is not a joy at all so I am simply wasting the place; somebody else could have been there who is now second to me, and he would have immensely enjoyed it.
Perhaps in the rest of his life he may not find anything else to enjoy, and this chance I have destroyed and I am not enjoying it anyway.
”So it will be better if I am last. At least I will have the solace that I have not spoiled anybody’s career, I have not been violent, pushy; I have not tried to invade somebody else’s space - nobody is behind me.
And because there is nobody behind me, I cannot feel superior. ”And there is the logic, simple logic: if you don’t feel superior, you can’t feel inferior.
They both come together, they both go together. If you drop one, you can not save the other.
If you don’t feel superior to anybody, how can you feel inferior to anybody? - you simply feel yourself!
But Mahmud was not a man, he was just animalistic. He caught Prithviraj Chauhan; not only that, he took out both his eyes.
Prithviraj was a very handsome man, and this was Mahmud’s revenge for being defeated eighteen times: he blinded him.
But Prithviraj Chauhan was a great archer. His court poet, a friend, got imprisoned with him, knowingly, to help him. When Chauhan and this poet were brought into the court, Mahmud was sitting in the balcony high above.
He was still afraid of this man although he was blind and chained. What fear! But the man had defeated him eighteen times and thrown him out of the country, not even bothering to imprison him.
Must have been a lion!
And the poet said to Mahmud, “You don’t know Prithviraj. I would like to tell you that there is none in the whole world who is such a master of archery as Prithviraj is.
Before you kill him, give him achance to show his art.
”But Mahmud said,“ Now he is blind, how can he be a great archer? He may have been. ”The poet said,“ Don’t be worried. He is such a great archer that just the sound is enough for him to hit the target. ”
And all this talk was going on so that Prithviraj could figure out where Mahmud was sitting from the sound of his voice.
And he killed Mahmud. Mahmud was thinking that he was going to show his skill in the art of archery but Prithviraj simply killed him from the sound, with an arrow exactly in the heart.
I told my history teacher, ”Your history is just a history of crime, and you are trying to make everybody a criminal.
Can’t you find some innocent human beings and talk about them and teach us that these were the real, authentic people? ”
But no, history is full of all these other people. All the history of the whole world needs to be flushed down the toilet, so that we can start from scratch.
Then we can be ourselves - because no comparison will exist.
By
Jagadeesh Krishnan psychologist and international author
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