{"id":79,"date":"2025-06-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/?p=79"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:35:38","slug":"archery-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/15\/archery-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCHERY CONTEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the Kuru princes had excelled in various weapons used in warfare, and Arjuna had mastered the art of archery.<br>One day, Dronacharya summoned the Kuru princes and challenged them to shoot the eye of a wooden bird placed on a tree.<br>Yudhisthira went first. Dronacharya asked him, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221; Yudhisthira replied that he could see the tree, the branch, the bird, and the surroundings. Hearing this, Dronacharya stopped him and asked the next disciple to step forward.<br>Each prince who came forward gave similar answers and each was sent away by Dronacharya, as he was not satisfied by the answer the princes gave.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loved this story? Read it in the book!<\/strong><br>This story is a part of my published book, <em>Epic Tales with Samrudhi<\/em>.<br><strong>To get your copy, feel free to mail me at<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:hello@samrudhikadam.in\"><strong>hello@samrudhikadam.in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Kuru princes had excelled in various weapons used in warfare, and Arjuna had mastered the art of archery.One day, Dronacharya summoned the Kuru princes and challenged them to shoot the eye of a wooden bird placed on a tree.Yudhisthira went first. Dronacharya asked him, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221; Yudhisthira replied that he could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/2025\/06\/15\/archery-contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ARCHERY CONTEST&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samrudhikadam.in\/MyStories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}