Reading Notes: Mahabharata - Part C

Pandavas' Exile

One of the main components of this reading was chronicling the time that the Pandavas brothers and Draupadi spent in exile. Overall, there are many comparisons from this section of the Mahabharata to the Ramayana. Draupadi was captured much like Sita, albeit for a much shorter amount of time. There were many encounters with Brahmin, each giving the Pandavas a celestial weapon, such as Rama receiving the celestial bows and arrows.

The War

The other main component of this reading was the war that forms between the Pandavas and their cousins the Kauravas. This section was much different in my opinion due to the large amount of interweaving between the characters. Mainly they were all related, fighting within their family because of the thirst for power. The Pandavas and the Kauravas were both related to the Gods and though these relations the war was influenced by the Gods as well as the armies on the front lines.

Story Idea

In the story The Battle Begins there was a section where it described the bad omens, one being that "headless men rose up and fought against one another; then the people feared that all who contended in that dread battle would be slain." From reading this, I imagined a battlefield where conflict never ends, as the dead rise again to continue the fight. A war that could continue endlessly.

Scene from the Pandava and Kaurava Armies
Scene picturing the Pandava and Kaurava armies.

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The Battle Begins
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