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Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata, Part C

In this blog post you will read my notes from part C of the public domain edition of Mahabharata. Below, you will find the links to my others notes:

Part A
Part B

Exile

  • The Pandavas brothers are in exile in the wilderness where they meet and learn from many sages
  • Krishna (avatar is Vishnu) visits the Pandavas 
  • Arjuna goes on an adventure alone because he violated his brother, Draupadi's time with Yudhishthira
  • Arjuna meets Urvashi when he goes to see his father Indra in Swarga
  • The other brothers go on a journey to the Himalayas where they finally meet up with Arjuna again
  • Bhima meets Hanuman when gathering lotuses for Draupadi and the monkey Hanuman told Bhima about his adventures with Rama
  • Duryodhana is still jealous of the Pandavas and continues to say that he will kill Arjuna in battle, which will end their exile
  • Draupadi is in danger like Sita was in Ramayana
Final Year of Exile
  • The brothers enter their final year in exile where they must spend it hiding
  • The brothers enter in to the service if King Virata and Arjuna becomes eunuch Brihannala (dancing instructor) 
  • Queen Sudeshna's brother tries to rape Draupadi and because the Pandavas are in hiding they cannot openly acknowledge her
  • Duryodhana attacks King Virata's kingdom and steals his cattle and the brothers go to aid the king 
Exile is over 
  • Krishna tries to make peace between the Kauravas and Pandavas to avoid war
  • Arjuna wants Krishna on his side
  • Krishna turns into his divine form as Vishnu to try to make peace again
  • Krishna tells Karna that he is a brother of the Pandavas
  • Arjuna is upset because on the opposing side of the battlefield he sees the people who raised him
  • Battle Begins 


Bibliography: 
Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie
The Mahabharata, A Summary by John Mandeville Macfie
The Indian Heroes by C. A. Kincaid
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita rendered into English by Edwin Arnold





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