Prafulla Kumar Mohanty's
DRAUPADI - XLVIII
The assembly of all kings
guests advisers chief priest Vyasa
and the Best Man Krishna
met for the grand closing ceremony.
Emperor Yudhistir after due consultation
with Vyasa, invited kings and scholars
had chosen Krishna Vasudev as the
most admirable personality of the
yajna ceremony for his knowledge
prudence judgement and political
acumen and philosophical insights,
into the human situation on earth:
But there was one voice which broke
the celebratory glamour of the assembly.
He was Sishupal a relation of Krishna
always hostile to Krishna who had assured
Sishupal's mother to pardon his hundred
insults or transgressions of moral dignity.
Sishupal was incensed by the choice of Krishna
as the Best Man in the vast gathering
and started throwing invectives at Krishna
in language and manner totally reprehensible.
Krishna warned him while counting insults
when he reached hundred and went on
calling him all sorts of foul names
making himself the eyesore of all present
Krishna in righteous indignation summoned
his unique secret weapon the Chakra
and decapitated Sishupal in the presence
of the entire assembly.
The shock over, the ceremony resumed
the guests were honoured with farewell gifts
in generous heaps of gratitude.
Bows hugs tearful farewells supervised by
Bhim and Draupadi made the lamped evening
joyous with illuminated smiles.
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