BHARAVI- A REPENTENT YET WORTHY SON

BHAARAVI.

Long long ago there was a great Sanskrit scholar by name Bhaaravi. He was young, energetic and a great scholar; he had all the 32 great qualities prescribed for a great and noble person. He was the 23 years old. He was writing a great book called KIRAATHA & ARJUNEEYAM; the story of King Arjuna; Bhaktha Kannappa & Lord Siva, in Sanskrit. His fame and the greatness of his literary work spread all over the world. His father Srikanth Sarma was also a erudite scholar.

Once the king of the land Sri Maheswara Varma declared to celebrate DASARA POOJA festival with pomp and gait. He declared competions in various aspects of proficiency, like archery, dance, music, horse-race, chariot-race and original writings of great literary works. On Mahanavami holy day a grand gathering of great scholars all over the world was arranged & the erudite scholar and his

greatest literary work would be greatly honoured.

That holy day came; thousands of scholars attended from all over the world; many kings of the world also came to participate in the festivities. The whole day several great writers participated in the competition; by night nine o’clock; the BEST erudite scholar was judged by a jury of five. Young

Poet Bhaskara was selected for the honour for his great literary work KIRAATHA ARJUNEEYAM.

The king Maheswara Varma lead the young scholar Bhaaravi to the glod-throne; he was seated there.

Flowers of gold, 1116 flowers were showered on Bhaaravi by the King and Queen. He was honoured with a title of MAHA-KAVI-RAJA. The short speeches praising Bharavi were delivered. The King

praised Srikantha Sarma as fortunate; and praised him for giving birth to such a noble and erudite son and training him to reach the pinnacles of glory, at a young age of 23 years.

Srikantha Sarma was modest. He thanked the king profusely for showering his affection on his son. He told it was not his son’s greatness but the affection of the king and the members of jury that got this great honour to his son; he is young & immature; he needs many more years of sincere learning to elevate him to the status of MAHA-KAVI-RAJA. So saying he blessing his son and sat down.

Bharavi felt humiliated by the modest speech of his father; he felt his father was envious. He did not like this honour given to his son. His anger boiled like lava in his heart. After the court is dismissed, he hurried to his house, leaving his father behind. His father searched for him & was told that his already left in a hurry. Bhaaravi wanted to kill his father for his insulting speech before the king. So he took an iron rod and himself behind the front door of his house. He wanted to hit his father on his head till he died, when he entered the house through the front door.