Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B

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• Kunti has a secret in her past
• Kunti did not fear Durwasa
• Kunti was given the gift to summon a god whenever she wanted by Durwasa
• She tested the gift and it worked
• She took the sun god into her arms and he left and she was left with a child
• Kunti was unmarried at the time
• Kunti placed her son in a basket and placed it in a bank as the basket floated away
• She begged the son god to watch over him
• Pandu while hunting shot an arrow and accidentally killed a hermit
• The hermit cursed Pandu
• The moment that Pandu becomes intimate he will die
• Pandu told his brother that he would not be returning to the kingdom
• Pandu asked Kunti to summon a god and give the kingdom its future kings
• Pandu was given 3 sons even though he asked Kunti for more kids
• Kunti helped Madri become a mother
• Pandu now had 5 sons total
• Pandu died after he forced himself in passion on Madri
• Pandu had a funeral in flames and Madri threw herself in the fire as well to die with him
• The sons would be known as the pandavas
• Ghandari had a troubled pregancy
• The day she gave birth was the saddest day of her life
• She gave birth to a huge lump of flesh
• The flesh was divided into 100 pieces by Vyasa
• Each lump was put into a vat of oil
• the children came to be from the vats
• the vats and she was able to hold her child
• She could not see her children, but others could
• they were children that could only be loved by their parents because of their demonic looks
• Kunti and her 5 sons return to the kingdom
• Duryodhana tried to trap and poison the pandavas
• Durvodhana laced the food with poison that would make them sleep
• He tied up the sleeping Bheem and then pushed him into the lake
• Bhem was attacked by poisonous snakes
• Any other mortal would have died, but Bheem broke from his ties and killed the snakes
• Naaglok who is Bheem's god father gave him a potion
• Bheem realized he was no longer going to be an innocent boy and decided to face the dangers all around the Pandavas
• Bheem said he had could not remember what had happened to him
• the pandavas needed a teacher
• Drona was the brahman and would end up becoming the teacher of the pandavas
• Drona threw various reeds at the ball down the well and they stacked up and he pulled the ball out of the well
• The pandavas wanted Drona to meet their grandfather
• Bhisma appoints Drona as the teacher of the pandavas
• Drona was able to pin point each students skills
• the sons were taught to control the divine weapons
• the weapons were able to control the elements
• Drona wanted vengeance against a kingdom with the help of the pandavas
• dog was shut up by an archer who placed arrows to stuff the dogs mouth
• Arjuna was crushed as he realized he was not the world's greatest archer
• Arjuna asks Ekalavya who taught him these archery skills and he replied that it was Drona
• Ekalayva became the world's greatest archer by just looking at a picture of Drona and training
• Drona commanded Ekalyva cut off his right thumb
• Drona basically ended the career of a boy who could have been the world's greatest archer