Reading Notes: Indira Parthasarathy's Krishna Krishna, Part B

  • Here there is a story of a fruit that a king got from a sage, which would make his queen pregnant when she ate it. He split it between his two wives, and they each gave birth to half a lifeless child.
    • One could change the fruit, the setting, what happened to the child, and so on of this seemingly common fruit-pregnancy scenario.
  • Jarasandha starving his defeated enemies and eating feasts before them gives me a similar image of Dracula. In Dracula's case, however, he ate while watching people slowly die after being impaled on pikes. Both are sadists.
    • Write Jarasandha similar to Dracula and Krishna similar to Van Helsing and gang who defeat him
  • Buddha, according to one tradition, was an incarnation of Vishnu. That is interesting.
  • Ooh, how interesting that Krishna taught some women how to use his altered version of the boomerang. That is quite progressive for the time.
  • "Nothing is impossible if you are ready to accept the challenge."
  • So even the author, narrator (Narada), admits that Jarasandha has schizophrenia. I was right on the mark there. Thank you, Intro to Psychology!
    • You could explore this as someone who has schizophrenia, thinks he or she is Jarasandha, and believes random people they see are Krishna coming to kill him or her. They may also keep challenging people to wrestling to become the supreme ruler of the universe.
    • What medications are used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia?
  • Krishna says he would love to listen to a poem where he is depicted as a woman. Perhaps that wish could be fulfilled.
  • Bhima and Jarasandha are fighting in a wrestling match. Jarasandha was torn in half but came back together again without problem. He was finally defeated by switching the sides that came back together, meaning the head halves were placed adjacent to the legs. I feel like this could translate into a Dragon Ball fight as I keep wanting to do.
Bhima fights Jarasandha
Web Source: Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography. Krishna Krishna by Indira Parthasarathy, link to Overview.

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