Monday, September 16, 2019

Reading Posts: Mahabharata Part B

The House of Fire
Source: The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

- Prince Vidura guessed Durodhana's plot
- His mother was a slave
- Prince Yudhishthira sees everything is coated in oil and warns his mother and brothers
- The mother and brothers escape and Bhima goes back to get revenge on the man planning to set the house on fire
- The neighboring house caught flame and the mother and 5 sons that the princes had let stay there died
- The people saw the bodies and assumed it was the Pandavas
- King Dhritarashtra and them rejoice

Bhima and Hidimba
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Bhima carries them all through the forest
- A rakshasa women falls for Bhima
- Bhima defeats his angry brother

Bhima and Hidimbi
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- the Pandavas awake up
- Arjuna offers to help but Bhima turns it down
- The brothers debate killing the rakshasa
- Kunti convinces Bhima to take her as his bride
- the women has a son named Ghatotkacha, who grows fast

Bhima and Baka
Source: The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

- The group leaves Bhima and goes to Ekachakra
- Family they are staying with arguing over who is going to leave
- Baka is ruining the town
- Bhima comes to help
- Bhima kills Baka

Birth of Draupadi
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- The Pandavas study the Vedas
- The story of Drupada's son being born
- The Queen wasn't ready for the sacrificial rite for children so asked the to stall
- When they couldn't, a son was burst from the flames and was fully clad in armor and then a beautiful daughter
- Draupadi is the daughter, Dhristadyumna is the son
- The Pandavas go to try and win her

Draupadi's Swayamwara
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Drupada wants Arjuna to be her husband
- he sets up a competition rigged so that Arjuna would win
- Arjuna wins and wins Draupadi

Wife of the Five Pandavas
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Kunti makes the boys share their winnings, even though it is the girl
- everyone allows her to be shared

The Story of Nalayani
Source: Notes of a Study of the Preliminary Chapters of the Mahabharata by V. Bentatachellum

- Drupada is concerned with his daughter having five husbands
- Vyasa explains that she was made to have five husbands

Indraprastha
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Duryodhana finds out about alliance with Drupada
- He demands war, the elders demand peace and the elders win
- Dhritarashtra splits kingdom between his sons and nephews
- The princes make a city called Indraprastha

Arjuna and Ulupi
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Arjuna breaks compact between them to get his weapons to stop a cattle robber
- Because of his he says he needs to be exiled for 12 years, even though Yudhishtra says its okay
- He wanders, finds a wife, and they have a child

Arjuna and the Apsaras
Source: The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

- A gator bit his leg and he began to drown
- He takes the gator to shore and presses his hands into it's eyes
- It turns out to be a nymph
- She tells the story of her curse and Arjuna and her go and free all of them


Arjuna and Chitra
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie and Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore

- Arjuna finds another girl, marries her, gives her a son so her father can have an heir and then leaves

Arjuna and Subhadra
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Subhadra is another girl he marries but abducting her
- This upsets Balarama, her father, because she was going to be given to Duryodhana
- Balarama is calmed and invites them back for a real wedding
- Subhadra and Draupadi make friends

The Burning of the Forest
Source: The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie

- The wives get drunk and give things away
- Agni approaches the princes and asks them for the forest
- They agree in exchange for celestial weapons
- There's a big war with Indra, which Indra loses and the forest burns and few animals escape

Maya's Palace
Source: The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie and Vyasa's Mahabharata translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

- Maya is so thankful to Arjuna for saving his life he builds him a beautiful palace that would make the gods jealous

The Pandavas Victorious
Source:  Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- The Pandavas become more powerful and eventually the over taken Yudhishtra
-Kishna kills Sishupala
- they all swear to peace

The Gambling Match
Source:  Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

-Duryodhana jealous again
- He defeats Yudhishtra in dice
- Draupadi won by Duryodhana in the dice match
- Vidura is extremely upset

Draupadi Lost
Source: Mahabharata, Epic of the Bharatas by Romesh C. Dutt

- Draupadi is upset that she was gambled and refuses to be gambled away
- This upsets him
- Doyradhana scares her

Draupadi in the Assembly Hall
Source:  Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Draupadi begs for protection
- Her husbands get vengeful
- Duhshasana wants to strip her naked in front of everyone
- The brothers all rally together to get their revenge and protect their wife

The Second Match
Source: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie

- Draupadi's father is angered
- The Kauravas worried the Pandavas will wage war because they are so upset
- Draupadi sent away and swears to not touch her hair until Bhima brings his revenge

Duryodhana in the Palace from Source

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