dronacharyudu reaches hasthinapuramu

Children of Dhrutharashtra were playing with a ball one day.The ball fell into a well.Children did not know how to take it from the well and stood watching round the well.Then Drona took it out by using arrows one after another.Then the children took him to the palace.Drona told his story to Bheeshma.He also told the heinous act of Drupa also.Bheeshma was happy and made him the teacher of his grandchildren.He taught them how to use arrows and bow.Among all of them,Arjuna was the best.He also made his teacher by his behaviour also.Aswththaama,Dronas son was also jealous of Arjuna.People who saw Arjunas talent felt That Parasuramudu would have looked like this when he was armoured with an arrow and a bow.Drona taught the children other acts like sword fight,prasamu and gadaayuddhamu also.

Yekalavyudu was the son of Kiratharaju,Hiranya dhanvudu.He too wanted to learn these talents from Drona.Drona refused to teach dhanurvidya to kirathaka.

He went home,made Dronas statue and prayed it with sincerety.He started learning shooting with arrows treating thw statue as his master and achieved mastery in that field.Rajas children saw the statue of their guru and Yekalavya .They told about his talent and how he learnt it to their master.

Arjuna enquired with his guru if Yekalavya was his disciple.Drona was awestruck and went to know the facts personally .Yekalavya was very happy to recieve his guru .He welcomed him whole heartedly.He asked what he would want as guru dakshina.To appease Arjuna,Drona asked for his right hand thumb as gurudakshina.Yekalavya happily removed and gave it to his guru.Like this Yekalavyas expertise in archery came to a sad end.Arjuna was relieved because Yekalavya would have been a threat to him in future.It brought into the open Dronas partiality towards his favorite disciple.In later days ,Arjuna became the best in all arts.

Drona was happy that Arjuna became the best and regarding his love towards him.He was confident that now Arjuna could go and win over his enemy,Drupada.

Then only he could rest peaceful.He gave many divyaasthrams to Arjuna.