Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata, Part B

In this blog post you will read my notes from part B of the public domain edition of Mahabharata. Below you will find the link to my notes from part A.

Part A

Vidura (brother of Pandu and Dhritarashtra) is not able to become king because his mother was a servant, but he is loyal to the Dhritarasthra court
The Pandava brothers have escaped and are now living in the wilderness again like when they were young boys living with their mother Kunti

Hidimbi (sister of the chieftain of the rakshasas) was sent to kill the brothers but instead fell in love with Bhima
After defeating Hidimba, Bhima will now fight with an asura (Baka)
The Pandavas continue to live in hiding as brahmins but the birth of Draupadi brings them out of hiding but they still go out as brahmins

Arjuna (Pandava) wins Draupadi as his bride and all brothers become husbands of Draupadi
Yudhishthira is king of western country of Khandavaprastha
Arjuna messes up the marriage arrangement with his brothers and has to go into exile. He goes on many adventures

Princess Ulupi loves Arjuna and gives him the power to make himself invisible in water

Arjuna and Ulupi have a child named Iravat

Arjuna meets Chitra and falls in love and marries her
Arjuna meets Krishna in the city of Prabhasa and falls in love and marries Krishna's sister, Subhadra

Mayasura builds a palace for the Pandavas. This causes more resentment from Duryodhana
Pandavas grow more powerful

Yudhishthira wants to declare himself supreme monarch by performing a Rajasuya sacrifice

Bhima swears terrible oaths which triggers a chain reaction of revenge

(Irvat, Arjuna's son with Princess Ulupi)

Bibliography:

The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid

Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie
Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore
The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie
Vyasa's Mahabharata translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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