Reading Notes; Mahabharata Part B

-Kunti gave brith to nothing but a lump of flesh
-Vyvas broke the lumps into one hundred peices and places they in vases of oil
-The sons were demonic
- Duryodhana did not like the Pandu sons
- His mentor (Shakuni) told him he must destroy them because they were pretenders
-The Pandavas ate a trap of food filled with sleeping herbs
-He pushed bheem into a lake and he was bitten by snakes
- He faught the snakes off and found himself deep into another world
-When bheem returned unharmed and did not remember what had happen or how he got there
- Under the work of Dronacharya, the Pandavas worked to become warriors
-Yudishtir was a great charitier and navigated the reigns
-Nakula and Sahadev were great swordsmen
-the strongest son, bheem, he was a fighter
-Archer, was a great warrior, excelled in archery
-Drona wanted vengence againt the faraway kingdom
- Arjuna was upset because Drona had taught another boy how to become a great archer
-Clavius had asked Drona to be his teacher but denied him and so he made a sculpture of him to practice in front of and surpasses his knowledge
-He made the boy cut off his right thumb
-Karnas asked his mother how he came to be so great and strong and she told him he was found in a river
-Parshuram accepted Karna to teach him even though he was only a Bhramin
- Parshuram cursed Karna and said the day he needed his skills most he would forget them
-In a tournament, Karna showed his skills in front of the who city and out did Arjuna
-Duryodhan had planned to set the palace on fire to kill the Pandavas
-The Pandavas realized that the palace was a trap and they needed to escape
-Duryodham had set the place on fire, and he thought he was glorius
- Bheem went to the hilltop to deliver food to Picasso and fought and killed him
- Krishna was born in a fire with his sister Draupadi
-In her wedding time, people came from all over to try to fight for her hand
- the only person who could lift the bow for the challenge was Arjuna and he was accepted as her husband
-Kunti said they must share Draupadi evenly between them
-Word got back to her father about how she was being treated and this would later spark much war.




Draupadi and her Husbands




Source: Mahabharata Vol. 1, Epidied, Youtube

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