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