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

• An interesting contraption:
• A bow sitting on a pedestal
• a fish-like contraption on the ceiling that always rotated and created an image of a fish in a pond below
• What kept it rotating? Was it wind, the motion of the earth, or even electricity?
• I like the image of Arjuna during the swayamvara: a "handsome beard", and "hair flowing down his shoulders". That is my kind of man.
• Have I tried applying my computer knowledge to my storytelling? How would I even do that in a subject like this? Did I choose the wrong reading if I really wanted to do that?
• Who are Jatilaa and Prachetasa? I admire them for having multiple husbands.
• What if Draupadi and the Pandavas were gender-bent?
• Note that Krishna repeats that Draupadi is born of fire, a righteous one. There are occasionally examples of diction that relate to this.
• Going back to the loss of the gambling game, what if Krishna had given Draupadi the power to unleash the strength of the fire from which she was born?
• "the Mahabharata was all about a woman's justifiable anger"

• Bhishma lost his humanity and became a machine: soulless and upholding the corruption of the establishment.
• That sounds like Terminator stuff.
• This makes me think of some story of rebellion, one where anarchist and/or rebels come together to take down a corrupt ruling power.
• Indra disguised himself as a Brahmin and begged Karna for his earrings. Apparently those earrings gave him power?
• Krishna mentions the game of life being played like a chessboard. What if the war was retold in the style of chess? I don’t know how to play chess... maybe dungeons and dragons?
• Remember when Arjuna and Duryodhana came to Krishna for help? Arjuna was at his feet and Dur at his head? What if you reversed this? What if their requests were reversed?
•  Karna thought that loyalty to his friends was justice. You know how in shows and anime that’s a common theme. “Our friendship and bond is everything! I would be nothing without my friends!” Just imagine something cheesy and cliche like that here.
• Karna hated Bhishma. I did not realize that. It says they quarreled quite a bit. Let’s look into that?
•  “...gold glittered more when treated with fire.” It sounds like it’s time for a Smash Mouth story. 
• I feel Krishna in this book fails to realize that there are plenty of good people who suffer who are forgotten from history. Remember how history is written by the victors? Only these said victors, whether they die or not, get to “adorn the pages of history”... 
• Krishna mentions the sister goddesses, Sridevi (the Goddess of Wealth) and Moodevi (the Goddess of Misfortune). They could be a fun topic to look into.
• Krishna was a socialist.
• Write a story about the Syamantaka jewel mystery. Tell the story of how the brother was killed and all that transpired afterward or a more in depth story of Krishna solving the case. (refer to loc 1597)

 

Goddess of earth gives Aditi's earrings to Krishna

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