Question

What explanation did Tenali Raman give about the name of the strange scripture?
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Answer 1

Explanation: A Battle to Baffle

• The title A Battle to Baffle is the ongoing war between the pundits.

• The war is associated with puzzled action.
• The word baffle here refers to confusion.
• The motto is to confuse people in war and win the battle in the end.
• Pandit Shahane came to the court with the intention of challenging all the pundits of the kingdom.
• This  made all the pundits a bit nervy.
• Tenali Rama accepted  Pundit Shahane`s challenge and wanted to have a discussion on the goodness of the scriptures  of ‘tila-kashta-mahisha-bandhana’.
• Panditji however failed to do so and accepted Tenali as the greatest scholar.
• Tenali Raman then explained the king the meaning of ‘tila-kashta-mahisha-bandhana’.
• He said ‘til’ meant ‘sesame’.

• ‘Kashta’ meant stems or sticks of sesame plants which were held in his  hands.
• ‘Mahisha’ referred to a buffalo and ‘bandhana’ to a rope which is used for tying.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Tenali Raman had pretended that the bundle contained scriptures called 'tila-kashta-mahisha-bandhana', and he wanted to discuss it merits. However, the bundle only contained some til (sesame), kashta (sticks or stems of sesame plants) and rope. Hence, tila-kashta mean the stems of sesame plants. The rope the bundle contained was used to tie up buffaloes. Mahisha meant buffalo and bandhana is the rope to tie up something. So that was 'tila-kashta-mahisha-bandhana' he had mentioned.