Aanand to play a PUSHPADANT [kleptomaniac] in Mahadev - Page 2

Originally posted by: kaatayani

the story further..!!

After composing the sloka, Pushpadanta grew very proud...He thought that he had written a sloka which was admired even by Lord Shiva.

He felt proud and boasted to everyone about how great his slokas were...Lord Shiva heard about this and came and talked him. 'Pushpadanta! Do you know my temples, always have a Nandi outside...Why don't you just go and peak inside Nandi's mouth?

Pushpadanta was wondering why the Lord was making such a weird request...He went and looked inside Nandi's mouth. Pushpadanta was taken aback to find that the entire sloka that he had composed was engraved in tiny letters in the teeth inside Nandi's mouth!

Flabbergasted he ran back to Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva smiled and explained to him, 'You are not the author of anything, Pushpadanta...It is the Brahman, which flows through you...All of this was written long ago...You are an instrument of the sloka coming out...'

Pushpandanta realized that he had been wrong in being proud of his composition, when he could not call the sloka his own composition. Pushpadanta asked the forgiveness of Lord Shiva and went back home and wiser man!

its a wonderful plot.. and i reallyy hope that Utkarsh sir does justice to this story nd does nt turn it into another "Manasthiti" plot

Originally posted by: mnx12

Pushpadanta- Gandharava used to take flowers to offer to Shivji from a king's garden. Seeing all the fflowers disappearing, but being unable to catch the person, he spread Shiv-nirmalya, Bail patras offerd to Shivji in the garden. When Pushpadanta came to take flowers, steping on Shiv-nirmaya, made him loose his powers. He was seen by the guards.

To get his powers back, he created the Shiv-Mahimna stotra. He sung it with devotion, which got his lost powers back.

It is an excellent stotra, looking foreword to this story.