Half

Courtesy: Sri.KV.Anantanarayanan
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half for you and half for me
*In a village there was a very rich but lazy person whose wealth consisted
manily of agricultural land and cattle inherited from his forefathers. He
had no education or training whatsoever and never cared about it.The two
functions that engaged his whole time was sleeping and eating and in time he
became so fat that he could not move at all. Incidently this man's name
was Vajrasumbha ( the inveterate idiot) When the excessive fat was
accompanied with disease like immobility, gasping, giddiness and similar
maladies obligatory to such fatties, the man called the local Brahmin priest
who was also a part-time astrologer, quack and soothsayer. The priest
examined the fat man gravely and quoting from all the slokas that he
could remember came to the conclusion that the sick man was possessed by a
ghost and a havan or yajna had to be conducted to exorcise the ghost and
bring the victim to his normal condition. **(the priest was rather very
scantily trained in scriptures etc, but had the gift of the gab to
compensate for it.) ** He also fixed the date and the dakshina for the
ritual.....one hunndred milch buffaloes. *
*The deal was confirmed and on the appointed day the priest prepared a big
fireplace for havan and started pouring ghee and other incense to it loudly
chanting a lot of inarticulate and strange words and the fatty victim and
the viilagefolk were highly impressed*
*But as luck would have it, a very learned scholar unexpectedly turned up
to the village on that date . He was aghast and angry seeing this
buffoonery and came rushing to the place of yaj~na and prepared himself to
announce something gravely.. *
*Pre-empting the scholar, the priest started pouring ghee on the fire
chanting the following mantra..*
*वज्रशुंभस्य यज्ञस्य महिषीशतदक्षिणा*
*तवाप्यर्धं ममाप्यर्धम् मा विघ्नं कुरु पन्डित॥*

*(vajraśuṁbhasya yaj�asya mahiṣīśatadakṣiṇā*
*tavāpyardhaṁ mamāpyardham mā vighnaṁ kuru panḍita||*

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*Oh, revered Scholar, for the yajna of vajrasumbha, I have arranged for a
dakshina of a hundred milch buffaloes, half of it will be for you, and so
please keep quiet and do not raise any impediment. *
*The idiot of a fatty fellow or his villagers did not understand the
meaning of this mantra. The scholar became silent and tame like a sweet
lamb and *
*the yajna was a resounding success*

knr

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