It
is said that there was a pathshala in this village where Kalidasa was reading. The
students of the school used to go to the temple of the goddess Durga for lighting. deepaks
and for chanting hymns. On a dark night his class fellows decided to send Kalidasa, who
was a dull student to the goddess for puja. They polished his hands with black and white
powder and told him to touch the face of the goddess with his hands so that they could
know that he bad really visited the place. Kalidasa went to the temple and lighted the
deepak.
He tried to mark the face of the goddess with
black and white powder. The goddess appeared and advised hini not to mark her face with
powder. She also asked him as to what he wanted as a boon. Kalidasa said, "I want to
be learned." She said, I You may go and turn over all the pages of the whole
book". He came to hisresidential pathashala in the night while all were asleep. At
the dead of night, as advised by the goddess, he turned over all the pages one by one and
slept. When some students of the hostel woke up in the early morning and began their
studies Kalidasa marked their mistakes in pronunciation and shouted "wrong",
'’wrong." |
