Monday, February 24, 2020

Reading Notes: Mahabharata (PDE) Part C

Story: Part C of the Mahabharata by Arnold, Besant, Devee, Dutt, Ganguli, Kincaid, Macfie, Mackenzie, Nivedita, Seeger, and Tagore.

Plot Points
  • Pot that stays full of food after praying to sun god
  • Arjuna goes to mountain and prays and meet by God in the disguise of a Huntsman and given Divine weapons then on his own fights against sea monsters and demons
  • The brothers encounter a god in disguise at a lake and he gives Yudhishthira riddles and then 2 boons
  • Duryodhana gets captured and then saved by the Pandavas who then decides to starve to death but is promised help from demons against the Pandavas
  • In final year of exile the brothers and their wife are hidden from being recognized and end up serving at a King Virata's court where a prince tries to get his hands on Draupadi but she runs to Bhima and he kills the prince
  • Exile over, the Kauravas attack Virata's kingdom but the Pandavas help defend them, then the Pandavas and allies prepare for war against Duryodhana who will refuse to give the brothers their kingdom back and the battle begins
  • Karna is told who his parents are and that the Pandavas are his brothers. He says it's too late to change sides but (of his brothers) will only fight Arjuna to the death

The armies face off before the battle 

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