Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part A



For week nines reading noted I am reviewing the Mahabharata Part A. The specific section that drew my attention in this week was The Adventures of Prince Arjuna. In this Bhishma urges Duryodhana to make peace with Pandavas. Dhritarashtra gives Pandavas hald his kingdom to make their own royal city. Arjuna enters in to Draupadi’s room unbidden, so he has to go into self-imposed exile. While in exile he marries the water nymph Ulipi, and Arjuna was now able to defeat the alligator and by doing so he freed other water nymph’s that was cursed into alligator forms. Next Agni orders him to burn the Khandava forest to destroy nagas. Then Arjuna awakes, with the Gandiva bow by his side and he goes to the forest as ordered by Agni. But as the forest burns Indra arrives with pouring rain to rescue the nagas from the fire. Although this is a hard plot to follow I believe what I take from this section is the beginning where Arjuna marries the water nymph and saves her from the alligator form, and then saves the rest of the water nymphs from their alligator forms. I believe this plot could be made into a very nice story.



(This picture is an image of the Burning af the Khandava Forrest. Picture Source: Forest)

Story Source: Mahabharata Part A

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