This section of the
Public DomainEdition of the Mahabharata starts off with scenes of the Pandavas walking
around in the forest after Yudhishthira lost the dice game. I will start of my
actual retelling of the story with his brothers blaming his dice game “addiction”
for their misfortune. Draupadi is still lamenting what has happened to her and
where she has ended up. In my story I can actually have her expressing her
anger with her husband Yudhishthira. I plan on incorporating Arjuna in this
weeks retelling of the story. He was exiled because he interrupted Draupadi’s
private time with Yudhisthira but he will come back again to help the brothers
defeat Duryodhana. I want to incorporate their reencounter with Arjuna and
their journey to the Himalayas but I’m not entirely sure how that would fit my
story. One of the characters I’m using for my story book is Hanuman and he
turns out to be a brother of Arjuna. Karna comes back to the story by battling
Arjuna in support of Duryodhana. Arjuna’s dad takes away Karnas armor in order
to protect his son but he still carries with him a deadly arrow. Another scene I
want to use in my story is where Draupadi is almost raped and Bhima defends
her. Duryodhana wants to try and punish King Virata for giving the Pandavas aid
by stealing his cattle but the Pandava brother are there to protect him. I don’t
know how I may incorporate this but I may add Krishna to my story simply to
acknowledge his idea of bringing peace between the families. I had completely
forgotten that Karna was a bother to the Pandavas! I will definitely use this
in my story. A battle finally awaits.
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