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Week 9 Story

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Hey Yall, My updated story is also available on my portfolio  The Birth of Karna Kunti was a young woman who was serving her time to her beloved Guru, spending her days maintaining the garden and minding the animals. She had always done what she was told and had much respect for the Guru she worked for. Kunti did anything to please her master and worked day and night whenever she was needed.  One day the Guru was so pleased with her work, he summoned her to his quarters to discuss her reward. "Kunti, you have been much help around my den, and I would like to reward you with great power," Guru said. "Yes, Guru," Kunti replied." " I have seen you work hard around here to please me, and I feel its only right to reward a gift to my loyal helper... I am going to bless you with a Mantra that you can recite at any time, whatever God you are thinking of while you chant this Mantra will appear and bless you with a child". Kunti thanked the Guru for the gi...

Reading Notes; Mahabharata Part B

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-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 te...

Reading Notes; Mahabharata Part A,

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-King Shantanu fell in love with with the River Goddess (Ganga) -The King agreed to do whatever she wanted, and ask her no questions -When they had their first child, she drowned the child -She killed six children of theirs -After Ganga told the king of why she drowned the children, she left him and took his last son he had -Sixteen years later - He saw his son and his wife Ganga -His name was David - Shantanu brought his son back to his kingdom so he could be a king one day -Shantanu fell in love with a fisherman's daughter named Sathyavathi, she refused to marry him - David begged the fisherman and his daughter to change his mind, he even offered to give up the throne to their son. -David took an oath that he would never get married or have any children. Shantanu granted his son Bhishma with the ability to grant his own death - After Shantanu died, he acted as a father to his two half brothers - After one brother had died, he feared for the kingdom so decided h...