14/04/2016
Story of Gurugram.....
As a teacher[edit]The ball and the ring[edit]
Dronacharya went to Hastinapura. One day, he saw a number of young boys, the Kauravas and Pandavas, gathered around a well. He asked them what the matter was, and Yudhishthira, the eldest, replied that their ball had fallen into the well and they did not know how to retrieve it.
Dronacharya laughed, and mildly rebuked the princes for being helpless over such a plain problem. Drona first threw in a ring of his, collected some blades of grass, and uttered mystical Vedic chants. He then threw the blades into the well one after another, like spears. The first blade stuck to the ball, and the second stuck to the first, and so on, forming a chain. Drona gently pulled the ball out with this rope of grass.
In a feat that was even more amazing to the boys, Drona then chanted Vedic mantras again and fired a grass blade into the well. It struck within the center of his floating ring and rose out of the well in a matter of moments, retrieving Drona's ring. Excited, the boys took Dronacharya to the city and reported this incident to Bhishma, their grandfather.
Bhishma instantly realized that this was Drona, and - his prowess having been exemplified - asked him to become the Guru of the Kuru princes, training them in advanced military arts. Drona then established his Gurukula near the city, where princes from numerous kingdoms around the country came to study under him. This village came to be known as Guru-Gramam ("guru" - teacher, "grama" - village), and has now developed into the city of Gurgaon.
