Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Week 9 Reading: Part A
This shows where the dynasty started and how Bharata was first to to pass down the crown to Vichitravirya who had two sons. These two sons names were Dhritarashtra and Pandu. Panda ends up becoming the new king and has 5 sons that all end up running in a pack. Their name were the Pandavas and are said to be the sons of gods. After Pandu dies the new king is Dhritarashtra. Vidura is helps the pandavas escape the death set up by Duryodhana but they end up escaping by going through a secret tunnel. The Pandavas have a set of different battles against different demons that lose along the way. As they travel they go to fight for the hand of the beautiful Draupadi and it comes down to the end but Arjuna wins the contest and the hand of Draupadi. He must share his wife with his 4 other brothers. The Pandavas take over half of Dhritarashtra kingdom that he passed over. After this Arjuna sent himself into exile. We move on to Yudhishthira and his story of how he is an obsessive gambler. Shakuni is a very skilled gambler and the two go into a gambling match of dice for very high stakes. His loses are very consequential and it forces the pandavas into exile. When the pandavas are in to exile Yudhishthira sends them with a copper pot that is able to provide them with food for their time in exile.
Burning forest
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Blaine,
ReplyDeleteThis is not the same version that I chose for my reading for this week, so I was very interested to gain some insight on what you chose. I really enjoy any stories that involve the Pandavas, I think they are all so interesting. It is almost strange the way they are almost all clumped together, in the way that they are discussed. However, it makes it a really interesting element to have five people seemingly acting as one.