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This is an ‘untold story’ from Mahabharat, published in a Sanskrit Magazine, many years ago. My father used to read it out to me and translate into my mother tongue. It goes like this:

Duryodhan is lying in the battle field, awaiting death, badly bruised by the wounds inflicted by Bhima. He kept his three fingers in a raised position and is unable to speak. All the efforts made by his men to understand the meaning proved to be futile.

Seeing his plight Krishna approached him and said “I know what issues occupied your mind. I will address them”.

He clarified that the issues are

a)      not building a fort around his capital city,

b)      not persuading Vidur to participate in the battle

c)      not making Aswathama as commander-in-chief after the death of Dronacharya.

Krishna explained further that (a) Assuming that you built a fort, I would have asked Nakul to mount the horse and destroy the fort, (b) If you succeeded in persuading Vidur to participate in the battle, I would have taken the Sudarshan Chakra myself to defeat him, and (c) If Aswathama is made the commander-in-chief, I would have made Yudhistir angry.

On hearing this Duryodhan closed all the fingers and within seconds he left his body.

Let me explain a little further. Many of us do not know that Nakul can drive his horse even in heavy rain without getting wet. He travels with such a speed between a drop and another drop, without getting wet. Only Nakul can do this among Kaurav and Pandav warriors. It also seems that if Yudhistir gets angry, everything that falls within the range of his eye sight will be burnt.

Management Lesson: Properly estimate the plans of the enemy and prepare for a counter attack well in advance like Krishna.

 

 Top Comment : Ravali    | 07 29 2011 05:50:43 +0000
Nice story and great conclusion. Something we should think upon. Thanks for posting it here.
 
38 comments on "The Untold Story"
  Commented by  Vinoy Scaria James, Consultant, Travel Hub    | 04 16 2012 22:37:26 +0000
Thanks for the post. Mahabharatha is a true classic. Loads of knowledge stored in that tome.
thanks for sharing such a nice story and as well as for teaching a good management principle.
  Commented by  Jaygopal Raghavan, Marketing Manager, Landmark Group    | 08 03 2011 07:54:26 +0000
Good story ! Well said Ravali !
  Commented by  Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Civil Engineer-Municipal, Sambalpur University    | 07 31 2011 17:26:46 +0000
Life becomes so difficult if a war continues. The History of India is full of such incidents and stories which we and our children should learn.
  Commented by  ATMA RAM CHAVALI, MANAGER IT, SBH    | 07 31 2011 09:01:03 +0000
good infor..nice conclusion
  Commented by  Mayuram V. Sankaran, Legal Advisor, Legal Profession    | 07 30 2011 20:29:04 +0000
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I have always wondered about why the avatar, Krishna, delegated the task of removing evil (represented by the Kauravas) from the face of the earth to the Pandavas instead of doing it himself with the help of his sudarshan chakra!
  Commented by  Pradeep Pantula, Sr. Software Engineer    | 07 30 2011 13:35:22 +0000
Thanks for the referral
  Commented by  Sanjay Kumar, Territory Manager- Delhi / NCR    | 07 29 2011 19:17:05 +0000
nice sharing with great thoughts ......thanks  
Nice story.......
  Commented by  sumanth, Head/VP/GM-HR, confidential    | 07 29 2011 13:42:06 +0000
Dear Mr. Cherian,

Greetings! when gods son lord Jesus can come to life and people believed it and why we should not believe when the greatest teacher on earth Lord krishna(according to hindus}says. 
  Commented by  Mathew Cherian, Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University    | 07 29 2011 13:20:22 +0000
Nice story, then Mhahabharath is a metaphorical story for those who are not Hindus. They sometimes see it as science, for example Nakul travelling faster than two drops makes his size smaller than the drops meaning it must be some elementary particle, so probably all the characters in the Mahabharatha. 
  Commented by  PRITHVI RAJ DUBEY, Managing Director, RAJ ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES PVT LTD    | 07 29 2011 11:25:54 +0000
Strange disclosure about Nakul's ability of Charioteering and also the Determination of Lord Krishna to save those who surrender to Him and also that Victory of Pandavas' being sure and pre determined by Lord.
  Commented by  Nilesh Jain, Project Manager, A Leading Media/Telecom Co.    | 07 29 2011 11:12:40 +0000
Gr8 learning..
Thanks Ms Meena.
  Commented by  Pooja Joshi, Home-Maker    | 07 29 2011 10:14:02 +0000
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Very Nice.....
Thanks for sharing..
  Commented by  Rajneesh Sharma, Sr. Software engineer, ARK Microsystems    | 07 29 2011 10:11:32 +0000
Nice one. Krishna was the real management guru.
  Commented by  Rathin Deb, Freelance Retail Consultant    | 07 29 2011 09:56:29 +0000
Thanks deepak for referral. Yes it is a story.
  Commented by  Abhimanyu Chauhan, Manager H.R.(Recruitment), Siddhivinayak Corporate Services    | 07 29 2011 09:33:57 +0000
Gud one."The Geeta" is d best book to learn management.Management is all prevasive n that era is not an exception.Better the management longer the ruling period n boundaries of country.
  Commented by  sindhu s manja, MBA/PGDM student, PIM    | 07 29 2011 09:14:36 +0000
hmm good one..
  Commented by  Dhesihan S, HR Executive, JUSTINTIME    | 07 29 2011 07:56:45 +0000
Nice thougts and essential too. I feel to read Mahabharath, even i know the stories and watched as a serial many time. Thnaks for the information once again
Wow, thank you very much sir for this great insight. There are many such useful stories in our epics.  How we see and interpret them makes the difference.  Thank you once again for sharing this useful management insight.
  Commented by  G A Narayan, Real Estate Consultant    | 07 29 2011 07:40:50 +0000
Nice story and you are right, many have never heard about it.
  Commented by  Seema, Partner/Principal/VP, Angel Associates    | 07 29 2011 07:07:29 +0000
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nice story, yes we can learn gud topics from our ramayan, mahabharat & puran a lot.
  Commented by  Mukund Pandey, Manager, Confidential    | 07 29 2011 06:56:59 +0000
Very rare t find such examle.
  Commented by  Danish khan, Business Analyst, cognizant business consultancy    | 07 29 2011 06:54:01 +0000
Nice article...Thanks for sahring here
There are a lot of management lessons that we can learn from our epics.
  Commented by  suhaschandra deshpande, Marketing Associate    | 07 29 2011 06:46:55 +0000
Lovely lessons...!!
  Commented by  Vipul Pandya, Senior Commercial Manager, Accord Communication Pvt Ltd    | 07 29 2011 06:43:51 +0000
Very Nice. We learn.
  Commented by  SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd    | 07 29 2011 06:43:12 +0000
Nice leasson.
Thanks for sharing & referral, MS_Pi.
  Commented by  ASHOK KUMAR, Software Engineer(Mobile Programmer), Astroved.com Pvt Ltd    | 07 29 2011 06:31:19 +0000
Really a nice one. I didn't read those stories. But eager to read those now after reading this small piece of story. Thanks a lot mam
  Commented by  Ravali, Sub Editor/Reporter, Creative Advertising    | 07 29 2011 05:50:43 +0000
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Nice story and great conclusion. Something we should think upon.  
Thanks for posting it here.
  Commented by  Mohammad Bakhsh, Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Freelancer    | 07 29 2011 03:20:34 +0000
Thanks,Virag ans MS_Pi for sharing management fundamental. Even though, Neha rightly pointed out, the moral of the story remains effective and universal.
  Commented by  neha singh, Content Editor, Avestia Corp    | 07 28 2011 17:11:59 +0000
The tenses in this narration are all wrong, and it stresses too much on Chankya Neeti,which is a very sorry state of affairs in this age and time!!!
  Commented by  Jitendra, Corporate Recruiter    | 07 28 2011 08:53:00 +0000
Hey thanks for Sharing really good one....
  Commented by  ujjwal, LLB Hons. student, university of lucknow    | 07 28 2011 08:51:31 +0000
never heard this story , good one , thnx for sharing !!
  Commented by  MS_Pi, Top Management, Confidential    | 07 28 2011 07:06:59 +0000
Dear Rohit, Call me Pi (pronouned as pai) It is the initials of my surname. Pi in Mathematics is known as 22/7 which is my birthday (22nd July). Call me Pi.  Okay? Thanks& Best wishes 
  Commented by  Rohit Thakur, Sr. MEP QA/QC Engineer, QA/QC INCHARGE, CONSTRUCTION SPECIALIST-MEP    | 07 28 2011 07:03:38 +0000
Mr. MS_Pi ...if you dont mind could we pls know your name? so that we can address you properly!! consider this as a request only!!!regards Rohit.
  Commented by  S. Muralidharan, Head, Project Planning/Strategy, Knowledge Foundation    | 07 28 2011 06:50:04 +0000
Execellent Management insight.  Thanks Mr. MS_Pi for sharing this untold story of Mahabharat.  We can derive management thoughts from every word Sri Krishna uttered in the entire episode.  
  Commented by  Rohit Thakur, Sr. MEP QA/QC Engineer, QA/QC INCHARGE, CONSTRUCTION SPECIALIST-MEP    | 07 28 2011 06:46:36 +0000
was't aware about this...thanks for sharing Mr. MS!!
  Commented by  Virag Shah, Office coordinator, Prince pharma pvt. ltd.    | 07 28 2011 06:38:37 +0000
Yes, good story. So many things we can learn from Mahabharat related to Management things. Few management institutes are learning this as subject. Thanks for referal
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