Link between Mahabharat and Dogs

This blogpost is remotely related to my previous blogpost about bisexual dogs.

I was given gyaan about this tamil proverb by my friend ashwin and I spent the rest of the evening laughing out loud. Before I go to the proverb, Lemme ask you all to guess the link between Mahabharat and Dogs..

I hope most of you get this right.. The link is that when Yudhishtira is walking towards the nether world, he is accompanied only by a dog. All his brothers and even his wife dies, but Yudhishtira walks alone and is surprised to look at a dog accompanying him. When he asks the dog as to why it still is accompanying him, the dog transforms into the Lord Yama, (The Lord of Death / Truthfulness and the father of Yudhishtira). The answer that Yudhishtira gets is that since he was not supposed to utter lies and since he uttered a lie in the battleground of Kurukshetra, he is made to suffer the loss of all his near and dear ones.

BTW, the lie uttered by Yudhishtira on the battleground is “Ashwaththamo Hataha (Kunjaraha)!” He announces the first two words aloud, but tells the third word in a whisper. Though this was a truth, that an elephant named Ashwaththama died, he intends to give this message to his Guru, Dronacharya (Ashwaththama was the son of Dronacharya)

Coming back to the story of the dog! I always imagined that dog which followed Yudhishtira on his last walk to be of the Labrador breed.. I have no idea why! It is really funny that I recollect that now!

Unknown to all of us, there is another link to the dogs and Mahabharatha.

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT – UNDERAGE VISITORS (IF ANY) MAY STOP READING HERE!!!

Now, who was Draupadi? She was the only wife of all the 5 Pandavas. As any other human, the Pandavas too had their wants to be satisfied and during those days, the symbol used by any of the pandavas to the others while spending private and quality time with Draupadi on the bed (a.k.a Fornicating) was that they used to leave their chappals outside the door so that the others do not disturb this moment of privacy.

It so happened one day that while Arjuna (The third pandava) was really busy with Draupadi, Nakula (The Youngest of Pandavas) enters the room and Arjuna gets disturbed. Embarassed and Shy, He gets furious and wonders as to why Nakula did not observe his chappals outside the door. There were no chappals outside the door and on investigating, the chappals were stolen by a DOG! So, Arjuna utters an irrevocable curse, which in Tamil, is as follows:

Naan Okka, Nakulan Nokka|

Naayi Okka, Ooore Nokka||

Which, while translated into English is:

When I was screwing, Nakula was watching|

So, whenever the dogs screw, let the entire town watch||

So, now you know why the dogs screw in broad daylight in front of all humankind!

As with any other saying, this one too has a corollary. Let me tell you folks abt the background of the corollary before telling the corollary.

Now, due to the above curse of Arjuna, all the dogs feel bad and they approach Krishna. Krishna, being the busy person He was, with all his 16k plus girlfriends, he takes his own sweet time, but then agrees to speak to Arjuna and get the curse revoked. Arjuna, being the ardent devotee of Krishna, agrees immediately and says that since the curse was given to the whole of Dogkind, they should take an application and an approval form signed by Arjuna; to Brahma as He is the only person having the power to revoke the curse.

So, with the approval letter and the application with them, all the dogs start going towards heaven to meet Brahma. On the way, it starts raining heavily. In order to keep the approval letter safe and dry, the dogs roll the approval letter with the application and shove it inside another dog’s arse. It rained continuously for a few days and when the rain ceases, the dogs are all confused as to which dog has the approval up its arse.

Now, that is the reason that dogs are sniffing at each others arse just before it rains and just after the rains end. They still have a hope that they might find the approval letter and get rid of the curse of Arjuna!