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Eklavya
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 27 December 2013 on Eklavya of the Mahabharata. The brochure tells how Eklavya, son of Hiranyadhanu, a soldier of Jarasandha, king of Magadha, came to Dronacharya to learn archery, and was turned away because he was not of high caste. He made a statue of Drona, took it as his guru, and practised before it every day until he became an archer of exceptional skill.
One moonless night he silenced a barking dog by shooting a rapid stream of arrows into its mouth. Drona and his pupils, hunting in the forest, were astonished, and Eklavya told them he was Drona’s pupil. Drona asked for his right thumb as gurudakshina, to keep Arjuna the greatest archer, and Eklavya gave it. He learned to shoot again with four fingers and his left hand.
The stamp was designed by Anuj Kumar.
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