Week 5 Reading Diary Continued: Public Domain Edition of Mahabharata

Part B of the Public Domain Edition of the Mahabharata begins with the burning of Queen Kunti and the Pandavas. Prince Vidura sends a miner to the house which saves the lives of Queen Kunti and her children. The whole town believes they have died. I would like to expand about the battle the family encounters in the wilderness. Bhima one of the Pandava brothers battles a beast but he eventually meets Hidimbi. This story also drifts into another story about Nalayani who is a female deity which is known for having five husbands. The story then moves on to multiple characters but I am mainly interested in how Arjuna saves Maya’s life and builds a palace for the Pandavas. The Pandavas over time began to gain lots of power. Duryodhana is still jelouse about all other peoples success going on around him that he decided a plan to take Draupadi,  Yudhisthira’s wife. It was a dice game which was rigged by Duryodhana. Duryodhana won but Vidura refused to willing pass Draupadi down to him. I will also focus on the scene where Bhima curses Duryodhana for having converted Drauoadi into a slave. From my understanding of the story I feel like Yudhisthira does not really care much about his ex wife. In my story I would like to add a specific phrase where Duryodhana taunts Yudhisthira. “Speak and say, thou who dost ever speak truly, hast thou lost thy kingdom and thy brethren and thine own self?” I want to focus on this specific conflict. Yudhisthira again played a game if dice leading to the exile of the Pandavas and Draupadi. 

Panduvas and Draupadi are exiled: BlogSpot