does yudisdhthir said any lie in his life? if yes then what was the lie?
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does yudisdhthir said any lie in his life? if yes then what was the lie?
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Explanation:
The myth, first: Pandava king Yudhishthira spoke just one half-lie in his life. When his guru and adversary asked him if Aswatthama was dead, Yudhishthira confirmed it. Drona meant Aswatthama, his son; in fact, it was an elephant named Aswatthama who had been killed by his brother Bhima, to which Yudhishthira alluded.
Yudhishthira spoke just one half-lie in his life. When his guru and adversary asked him if Aswatthama was dead, Yudhishthira confirmed it. Drona meant Aswatthama, his son; in fact, it was an elephant named Aswatthama who had been killed by his brother Bhima, to which Yudhishthira alluded.
"Yudhishthira distinctly said that Aswatthama was dead, adding indistinctly the word elephant (after the name)," Kisari Mohan Ganguli’s magnificent translation of The Mahabharata, undertaken between 1883 and 1896, states. The moral fall was instantaneous. "Before this, Yudhishthira’s car had stayed at a height of four fingers’ breadth from the surface of the earth; after, however, he had said that untruth, his (vehicle and) animals touched the earth."
No doubt, Yudhishthira stated this half-lie with deep reservations, under the weight of potential victory, and with the "counsels of Krishna". But he spoke it consciously, knowing fully well that Drona believed that he never uttered an untruth. The poetic fall of his chariot could really be a reflection of the stepping down from the moral high he lived in.