Oh, it is worth reading. Indian culture cannot be known unless you read the Mahabharata. And, after he was crowned king, he had a desire to feed millions of people, as a gesture of his greatness as emperor, and he also wanted to know how many people had eaten. Vyasa hung a bell with his mantra. You can count the number of times it rings, and imagine that so many thousands have eaten.
Some tremendous mystery is there behind it.
Once only it will ring when a thousand people eat. You find out if anybody else is eating. He went looking around and found this little boy Suka, looking unkempt, sitting with a dog, which was licking the leaves, the remains of the people who had eaten, and he was eating one grain. When he ate one grain, the bell started ringing. He is the whole universe himself.