Reading Notes: Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution Part B

  • Bearing the children of the gods is instant? There is no need to worry about the nine months of discomfort and possible death from childbirth? Plus you end up with amazing children? That sounds like a sweet deal if you want children.
  • I thought the sage did tell Kunthi that the mantra would summon a god of her choice for pleasure. Did she not use it because she was not sure if it would work?
  • If the people of the forest thought Pandu and his wives were deities, those three could easily have taken advantage of these people. This could have resulted in a different curse cast upon Pandu but still lead to similar results.
  • Okay, but partially jokingly, someone could, and probably has, write some crazy smut about Kunthi and the gods.
  • The twins did not train with Kunthi's sons. I swear, the twins always seem to get the short end of the stick throughout the epic.
  • Narayan's version of the epic did not mention how Gandhari had one hundred sons, and I can see why. To give birth to a putrid lump of flesh sounds horrifying. The whole process of diving the lump into a hundred pieces and growing the children in oil vats sounds like mad science. No wonder Duryodhana and his brothers were so evil and helped to cause the war with the Pandavas.
    • This could be an interesting horror story to write about.
  • Was the story of Bhima in the lake with the snakes included in Narayan's version even partially? Getting to meet the naga king who gifts him incredible strength is cool, though.
  • Needless to say, Drona is a spiteful jerk. His need for revenge and then to deny a hunter boy (Ekalavya) of becoming a legendary archer by having him cut off his right thumb because he learned from an image of Drona is despicable. Drona deserved his fate that he received at the end of the epic.
Guy talking to a serpent king
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Bibliography.  Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution by Epified TV (India), link to Playlist B.

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