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Sarahasyo dhanurvedah savisargo upasamyamah
Astra gramas cha bhavata sikshito yat anugrahat.
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Sarahasyah—confidential, Dhanurveda—knowledge in the art of manipulating bow and arrows, Visarga—releasing, Upasamyamah—controlling, Astra—weapons, Grams—all kinds of, Cha—and, Bhavata—by yourself, Sikshito—learnt, Yat—by whose, Anugrahat—mercy of.
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One (Dronacharya) by whose mercy the military art of throwing arrows along with its confidential art of controlling etc. were learnt by you.
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Dhanurveda or the military science were taught by Dronacharya with all its confidential parts of throwing and controlling by Vedic hymns. Gross military science is dependant on material weapons but finer than that is the art of throwing the arrows saturated with Vedic hymns which act more effectively than the gross material weapons like machine guns or atomic bombs. The control is made by Vedic mantras or transcendental science of sound. It is learnt from the scriptures like Ramayana that Moharaj Dasarath the father of Lord Sri Rama used to control an arrow by sound only. He could pierce His arrow even by hearing the sound only without seeing the object. So this is a finer military science than the gross material military weapons used nowadays. Arjuna was taught all these confidential parts of the military science and, therefore, Droupadi wished that Arjuna should feel obliged to Acharya Drona for all these benefits. And in the absence of Dronacharya his son is the representative. That was the opinion of the good lady Droupadi. It may be argued why Dronacharya a rigid Brahmin should be a teacher in military science. But the reply is that a Brahmin shall become teacher never mind what the department of knowledge is. A learned Brahmin shall become a teacher, a priest and the recipient of charity. A bonafide Brahmin is authorised to accept such profession.
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#dd#savisargopasaṁyamaḥ#/dd#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=rahasyaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#rahasyaḥ#/i# — confidential; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dhanuḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dhanuḥ-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vedaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#vedaḥ#/i# — knowledge in the art of manipulating bows and arrows; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=sa&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#sa-#a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=visarga&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#visarga#/i# — releasing; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=upasaṁyamaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#upasaṁyamaḥ#/i# — controlling; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=astra&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#astra#/i# — weapons; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=grāmaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#grāmaḥ#/i# — all kinds of; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — and; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=bhavatā&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#bhavatā#/i# — by yourself; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=śikṣitaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#śikṣitaḥ#/i# — learned; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yat#/i# — by whose; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=anugrahāt&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#anugrahāt#/i# — mercy of.
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It was by Droṇācārya's mercy that you learned the military art of throwing arrows and the confidential art of controlling weapons.
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#i#Dhanur-veda#/i#, or military science, was taught by Droṇācārya with all its confidential secrets of throwing and controlling by Vedic hymns. Gross military science is dependent on material weapons, but finer than that is the art of throwing the arrows saturated with Vedic hymns, which act more effectively than gross material weapons like machine guns or atomic bombs. The control is by Vedic #i#mantras#/i#, or the transcendental science of sound. It is said in the Rāmāyaṇa that Mahārāja Daśaratha, the father of Lord Śrī Rāma, used to control arrows by sound only. He could pierce his target with his arrow by only hearing the sound, without seeing the object. So this is a finer military science than that of the gross material military weapons used nowadays. Arjuna was taught all this, and therefore Draupadī wished that Arjuna feel obliged to Ācārya Droṇa for all these benefits. And in the absence of Droṇācārya, his son was his representative. That was the opinion of the good lady Draupadī. It may be argued why Droṇācārya, a rigid #i#brāhmaṇa#/i#, should be a teacher in military science. But the reply is that a #i#brāhmaṇa#/i# should become a teacher, regardless of what his department of knowledge is. A learned #i#brāhmaṇa#/i# should become a teacher, a priest and a recipient of charity. A bona fide #i#brāhmaṇa#/i# is authorized to accept such professions.
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