I was thinking about the story of ekalavya who is believed to have ’sacrificed’ his archery skills upon his “teacher” ( was it ? ) Drona’s wish . Now according to the popular story , Arjuna was a favourite student of Drona and he was fearful that Ekalavya may overshadow him in history as the greatest archer.He requested drona to ask for ekalavya’s right hand thumb as gurudakshina (fee). I doubt if this story is true 
. There seems to some bias in this plot which brings forward Ekalvyas ideal qualities and overshadows the bad things about arjuna and drona . Now where can you find a person who is as ideal as Ekalavya as the mahabharata potrays him to be.
Lets view this story from another angle. Ekalavya goes to drona and requests him to be accepted as his(Drona’s) student. But Drona doesn’t want to teach archery to a tribal person.Now first thing to give a thought is why would a tribal whose main occupation is hunting and who would already have mastered the art of archery want to again learn archery from Drona?? 
. Ekalavya could have learnt archery himself or from elders of his tribe and may have mastered the art with practice. Now since his main occupation or hobby whatever you call it is to hunt , he shot arrows at the hunting dogs of the pandavas. Ekalavya being a tribal and thus of lower class killing the hunting dogs of th ekshatriyas naturally angered the pandavas and they after some heated words would have overpowered Ekalavya and cut off his thumb so that he wouldn’t be able to hold an arrow perfectly and thus never be a good archer.
If this kind of story is added to mythology , people reading it may not be impressed by it and thus to add some idealness in the story it was modified to what is told in mahabharatha.
All characters in the above speculative story are imaginary 
and so are the characters in the original epic .
