Eklavya

Eklavya is a character from the Mahabharat epic. He wanted to learn archery but was refused as a student of the Acharya Drona because of his low shudra caste. Eklavya decided to make an idol out of clay of the guru Drona and learnt by worshipping the idol archery. When Drona found out that Eklavya successfully had learnt archery, he requested Eklavya to cut off his thumb as dakshina to the guru.

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