Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Reading Notes: C.A. Kinkaid's Mahabharata, Part B



  • The Pandava brothers have finished their 12 years of exile and now have to do their one year of disguise in King Virata's kingdom
    • Yudhishthira becomes a gambler
    • Bhima becomes a cook
    • Arjuna becomes a dancing teacher
    • Nakula works in the stables
    • Sahadeva becomes a cowherd
    • Draupadi becomes Queen Sudeshna's maid
  • Kichaka, the queen's brother, tries to rape Draupadi
    • Bhima dresses as Draupadi when Kichaka comes to rape her, and he kills Kichaka
    • Draupadi tells the queen she has a celestial husband that killed Kichaka
  • Duryodhana learns that Kichaka has died, and launches an attack on King Virata, taking King Virata captive
    • The Pandavas' year of disguise ended right after Virata was captured, and the Pandavas decide to retrieve King Virata
    • The Pandavas are victorious in getting King Virata back, and they then reveal their true identities to Virata
    • Arjuna's son, Abhimanyu, marries King Virata's daughter, Uttara
  • Yudhishthira tries to make peace with King Dhritarashtra, but Duryodhana forces King Dhritarashtra to decline the offer
    • Duryodhana tries to force the Pandavas to spend another 12 years in exile
    • Pandavas do not want to spend more years in exile, so they do battle with the Kauravas
  • Bhima once again vows to break Duryodhana's thigh and drink his blood
  • The Pandava army is much smaller than the Kaurava army
  • Arjuna kills Bhishma and attends to Bhishma as he dies. There is a small ceasefire at this time
  • Arjuna slays Karna when Karna's chariot becomes stuck
  • Duryodhana, Aswatthaman, and Kripa and Kritavarman only Kauravas left
  • Duryodhana hides under a lake from the Pandavas
    • Duryodhana agrees to come out to fight Bhima in single combat
    • Bhima breaks Duryodhana's thigh
    • Kaurava survivors go kill all of the remaining Pandavas except the brothers and Krishna
      • Arjuna's son. Abhimanyu among those who was killed
      • All of Draupadi's sons had been killed
  • All 100 of Dhritarashtra's sons have been killed so Dhritarashtra tries to kill Bhima but accidentally crushes a statue instead as he is blind
  • Dhritarashtra and Kunti go to a forest to escape the rule of the Pandavas and die in a fire
  • Yudhishthira becomes king of Hastinapura
  • Uttara, wife of Abhimanyu, has a child named Parikshit
  • Krishna dies after being shot after he was mistaken for a deer
    • Arjuna took all five of Krishna's wives north to rivers but the wives are captured by barbarians
    • After hearing of the Krishna news, Yudhishthira decides to leave the world with all of the Pandavas and Draupadi
  • Parikshit named king of Hastinapura
  • Bharatas are all reunited in death
    • Each of the Pandavas and Draupadi die while hiking the Himalayas
    • Yudhishthira was the last to go, and was tricked multiple times
      • Indra told Yudhishthira to go to heaven but Yudhishthira would not leave his dog - he passed the loyalty test
      • Yudhishthira and his dog went to heaven, but his brothers were not there so Yudhishthira asked to go to hell and found his brothers there - this was passing another test so all of the Pandavas, Duryodhana, and Draupadi returned to heaven.
      • Duryodhana and Yudhishthira embrace and are, once again, brothers that love each other. Duryodhana has no more jealousy
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Bibliography

"The Mahabharata". C.A. Kinkaid. Found online here



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