Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Reading Diary A : In Disguise- Week 10

Duryodhana decides to make a royal camp near the Pandavas.
They send a gandharva. The gandharvas take Duryodhana captive but the Pandavas let him go.

Nakula drinks from a lake and dies because he ignores the lake's request.
Sahadeva, Arjuna, and Bhima meet the same fate.
Yudhishthira, however, meets the lake's request.
The other brothers come alive again.

After 12 years of exile, the bothers spend 13 years in disguise.
Yudhishthira is the king's companion
Bhima is a cook
Nakula is a stable boy
Sahadeva is a cowherd 
Arjuna becomes Brihannala and lives as a eunuch in the women's quarters
Draupadi is Sairandhri (the hairdresser of Virata's queen.)

Draupadi is raped by one of the king's generals.

Duryodhana and his entourage plan to attack the king and steal his cattle.
The king's son finds out and take Arjuna to drive the chariot.
He panics and Arjuna ends up fighting alone. 

With thanks, the king gives his daughter (Uttara) to Arjuna's son (Abhimanyu) for marriage.

Satyaki - Krishna's charioter
Satyaki proposes war against Duryodhana.

The Pandavas try for peace. 
Vidura tries to convince Dhritarashtra to make Yudhishthria his heir. 
However, he cannot resist Duryodhana's will.

Vyasa tries to tell Dhritarashtra that this war will be their end. 




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