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Chanakya sloka on stars
by ARINDAM GHOSH on Jul 27, 2007 04:03 PM

The great ancient wise man from Patna(=Pataliputra) Chanakya Kautilya wrote a verse involving stars which read " Baramekah guni putrah, na cha murkha satanwapi/ Ekashchandra tamohanti, na cha tara ganoirapee".
In translation it means -"It is better to have one qualified son than one hundred idiot siblings/ (Just see) one moon removes darkness whereas million stars are unable (to do the same)". Alas no body reads Chanakya these days. Otherwise the whole of Bollywood along with other woods( except real wood i.e. available from trees) would not have existed. Ancient India Zindabad....Zindabad...Zindabad



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