MADANA MOHANA MALAVIYA

When yet a boy of fifteen years Madana Mohana had an opportunity go to Mirzapur with his uncle. Many scholars had assembled there, and some of them were too learned discourses. When the boy heard the discussion, he also wished to speak. Once or twice he wanted to get up. At last, he got a chance. He stood up. He looked at assembly and began his speech in a dignified manner. The sweet deliver in Sanskrit, the extraordinarily close logic and the rare scholarship of the surprised the mighty scholars assembled there. They showered praise on him.

Pandit Nanda Roy, himself a scholar, presided over the assembly. Madana Mohan's appearance, scholarship, humility, dignified bearing oratory held him as if by magic. He was speechless. He decided to give his third daughter Kundana Devi in marriage to the young man. Well, the fifteen - year - old Madana Mohana was married with great pomp to Kundana Devi.

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