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Brahma said, "O honourable sage! this idea of yours is excellent and I appreciate it very much. You deserve gratitude of all. Such a work, you desire to get done, can be very safely entrusted to Ganesh. He is surely competent to do justice to this job. If you can appease and bring Ganesh round, your desire will be fulfilled."
Vedavyasa went to Ganesh and requested him, "O Lord of Shiva's Ganas! You are the giver of wisdom and success. I stand in need of your help."
Ganesh said, "I shall do as you wish. But you shall meet one demand of mine."
"What is that? " Vedavyasa said.
Ganesh replied, "You shall go on speaking and I shall go on writing. You should keep in mind that if you stop to speak, my concentration will be disturbed by other thoughts. If I lose concentration, you shall not blame me for any laxity in my work."
Vedavyasa was surprised. He said, "I have not followed what you mean to say."
Ganesh said, "The fact is that I cannot sit idle. I shall not waste time. If you are confident that you can do so, I am willing to assist you."
Vedavyasa understood what Ganesh meant. He smiled in his heart and said, "O remover of all obstacles! I am ready to accept your demand. But I think you too well know that you shall not proceed to scribe before following the meaning of any verse. This is actually very essential to understand every verse before putting it to pen. I hope you agree with me that it is neither possible nor desirable to write a thing without understanding it. Ganesh agreed. Vedavyasa began to speak and Ganesh began to write. After dictating eulogical verses, Vedavyasa started telling the story. Whenever Vedavyasa stopped finishing a sentence, Ganesh at once said, "You are lagging behind. Increase your speed. Stopping makes me restless."
Vedavyasa increased his speed. Ganesh wrote faster. In short there was a competition between the two. Vedavyasa found that Ganesh could write faster than he could speak. In the end, his verses became more difficult and complex. Consequently, Ganesh had to take more time to grasp the purport of what Vedvyasa spoke. This gave time to him to think before dictating a verse.
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