Learning sixty-four arts in sixty-four days.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Matching stories: 10
Learning sixty-four arts in sixty-four days.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A broken tusk for a pen.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Valmiki Ramayana, Book I, all 77 sargas — Rama's birth, his teachers, and his wedding to Sita.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Practice is a quiet kind of teacher.
From the original text · Mahabharata

A river that fell from the sky and was caught in gentle hair.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

A turtle who held up a mountain so the churning could go on.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
A mountain's daughter and a very long tapasya.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Reading while flying backwards.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
A quiet start, every single day.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A rope always two fingers short.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
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