The story of Chandrasharma

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It was an early morning. A young Brahmin Brahmachari was returning from the River Narmadha after bath and Surya Namaskar. He was coming by a big Banyan Tree on which the Brahmaraksha, Gouda Padhar, the disciple of Rishi Padhanjali was hanging because of the curse of his Guru and waiting for a brahmachari passing that way for asking a question. The young, charming beautiful brahmachari came under the tree. The Brahmaraksha called him and asked him his regular question expecting an incorrect answer. But, to his utter surprise the Brahmachari answered it right. Now the Brahmaraksha Gouda asked about him. The Brahmachari said his name was Chandragupta Sharma, and was going to meet of Rishi Padhanjali in order to learn the Vyakarna Bhashyam from him. Now the Brahma rakshas said that it was all finished story and narrated the whole thing in short form to that boy. Here it should be noted that the young brahmachari was none but reincarnation of Rishi Padhanjali himself. Though after learning everything from the Guru, the disciple became brahma rakshas, Pahanjali was watching the disciple as what was he doing and what was going on and understood through his yogic power, that his disciple (now Brahmarakshas) could not find a person to teach the Vyakarana Bhashyam, decided to help his disciple, because only after giving his acquired knowledge to an eligible Brahmachari he would be released from his curse and get his human form otherwise he would remain as Brahma rakshas for ever. So Padhanjali decided to shed his body to born again in a Brahmin family to become the disciple of his disciple.

Now the Brahma rakshas decided to start his teachings to the boy with some conditions; that the boy should also sit on a branch of the banyan tree and should never come down till the teaching was complete. And that Brahmarakshas would go on dictating the explanation and the boy should take down it without delay as there was no time for the Brahmaraksha to explain and clarify the doubts of his disciple. Though it might take many days and night to get the study completed there would be no food sleep or rest to both of them. Without wasting a single second he started dictating the explanation. Chandra Sharma was stunned for a moment because he did not bring any material to write down whatever Brahmaraksha is dictating. Without knowing what to do he scratched his thigh with his nail. Blood was coming from the scratch. He plucked the leaves from the tree and started writing with his blood oozing from his thigh. The speed of dictation of the Brahmarakshas was very fast because the faster he finish up his work sooner will he get himself free from the curse of his Guru, and get his original human form. Chandra Sharma wrote faster than the Brahma rakshas because he was none but Adhisheshan’s re-incarnation. The process was going for days. Chandra Sharma plucked and used all leaves from the tree and by that time the dictation was also finished. As soon as the work was completed, the form of Brahma rakshas flew away screaming from Gouda Padhar and he got back his human form. Thus Gouda Padhar released from his curse took leave of Chandra Sharma and left for Himachal region to do penance.

Chandra Sharma who was writing and writing for days together without food, rest or sleep felt very tired. He collected all the leaves in which he wrote the explanation for Bhashyam bundled them in a cloth and kept aside and started sleeping under the same tree besides the bundle. Now the fate started its play in its own way. While he was sleeping a goat came there in search of food. As he could find no grass around, looked up the tree but could not find a single leaf there as all the leaves were used by Chandra Sharma to write the explanation for Vyakarna Bashyam. The goat scratched the cloth bundle with leave beside Chandra Sharma, opened it and started eating the leaves. Even the smell of the blood could not drive him away. The Brahmachari was so tired that he was sleeping like a dead. On satisfaction of his appetite the goat started making noise happily. Chandrasarma woke up at the noise made by the goat and saw his bundle opened, part of the explanation eaten away by the goat. The Brahmachari was very sad, collected the balance explanation on leaves in the same cloth and bundled again and started walking with it looking for a nearest village. After walking for some distance he entered into a village. The first house he could see was that of a merchant. The big sit out on out side of the house welcomed him. Without a second thought the hungry and tiresome Chandrasarma straight away went and laid there throwing beside his Bashyasm explanation bundle and fell into deep a sleep and swooned. After some time the door of the house opened and the daughter of the merchant came out and saw the young handsome charming Brahmachari and understood that the boy was unconscious due to fasting (without food).She immediately went into the house and mixed rice with curd, made into a paste and applied the same all over the body of the Brahmachari. The juice of the curd and rice slowly penetrated through the hair holes in the body and straight away mixed into the blood, gave some strength. The Brahmachari woke up and started walking with his bundle. But the girl held him back and told him not to go. By the time the girl’s father came on the scene and requested the Brahmachari not to leave until he marries his daughter. So far his daughter refused to marry, now agreed to marry on seeing this Brahmachari. But Chandra Sharma was not interested in marriage. Now the father told him that it was his daughter who saved him from death and as a show of his thanks he should marry her. He did not leave the matter with that and took the matter to the king for justice. Due to compulsion the young Brahmachari married the merchant’s daughter and got a child. Then he left his wife and child under the care of the merchant and proceeded towards Himachal region for doing penance. So it should be noted that Vyakarna Bashyam now available is only part of the original explained and taught by Rishi Padhanjali because a portion of he same was eaten by that hungry goat.