Monday, March 30, 2020

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B


  • 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

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