What did Dronacharya ask Ekalavya as Guru Dakshina? Why?
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Drona asked Ekalavya for a Guru dakshina that a student owes his teaching upon the completion of his training. Ekalavya replied that there was nothing he would not give his teacher. Seeing Ekalavya as highly talented Dronacharya blessed Ekalavya to master archery without the thumb.
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Ekalavya approached Drona to learn dhanurveda, and was turned down because he was not a prince. Ekalavya does not give up and tries to gain the skill he was denied, by practicing in front of Drona’s idol.
What he did subsequently amounts to stealth of knowledge. Besides, his conduct with a dog demonstrates he lacks the restraint required for someone seeking dhanurvidya (not using his skill against innocent but only for protection).
The breach of code by Ekalavya is multifold, and the penalty he attracted for is proportionate. Thumb is taken out so that he is denied the higher level learning. The same Drona teaches an alternate method to shoot arrows without use of thumb, so that Ekalavya’s livelihood and self-protection does not suffer.
Parashurama also denied Karna only the brahmastra for the deception he committed, but does not penalize him otherwise - the knowledge he gained by serving Parashurama remains with him and comes to use.
Teachers are quite deliberate and calibrated in awarding penalty as well as knowledge.