[Sanskrit, frommahāgreat +bhāratastory] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 Ma•ha•bha•ra•ta (məˈhɑˈbɑr ə tə) ...
The Mahabharata tells the story of a dynastic struggle for the throne of the ancient Indian kingdom of Hastinapur, between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, two branches of the same royal family. The Mahabharata is not just a story, but also contains philosophical and spiritual teachings. It is...
Let us learn a lesser-known story from the Mahabharata. As Kauravas were losing the war of Kurukshetra, Duryodhana approached Bhishma and accused him of not fighting the war to his full strength because of his affection for Pandavas. Bhishma was angry. He immediately picked up five golden ...
Ganesh also confesses that he added his own original characters into Vyasa’s story. Two of these were Leela and Meera. Ganesh tells the reader: “Without mentioning a word of it to anyone, I simply dropped [Leela] into Vyasa’s tale, at one of the few places in the epic where a cha...
TO read full artiicle —https://mahabharata-project.com/resources/ July 16, 2024 Mahabharata ProjectLeave a comment A Hare Krishna Perspective on Christian Nationalism *** The Issue At Hand I imagine some Americans were quite concerned with the 2009 Newsweek article by Lisa Miller. Its title pr...
Divodasa had already heard of Madhavi’s extraordinary beauty as also of her story (śrutam etan mayā pūrvaṃ). He rejoiced greatly upon the fortune to be with her. But, he too had only two hundred such steeds that Galava required. He agreed to beget only one a son from Mad...
Vyasa [Vee-YA-sha]: narrator of the story and father of Pandu and Dhritarashtra BHISH-ma: half-uncle by marriage of Pandu and Dhritarashtra Dhri-ta-RASH-tra: blind king, father of Duryodhana and the Kauravas GAN-dhari: wife of Dhritarashtra KUN-ti: wife of Pandu and mother to ...
story, that dominant narratives – whether of victor or visible victim – hide so many others. It is this array of truths, and the complexity of characters – central or marginalised – that I find most compelling in the epic, and it is very much a tradition that begins withJaya, the ...
Mahabharata is not just a story of the Bharatas; it gives the history of India and beyond, enabling us to pick out one gem after another, from an ocean of gems. What I have done is just picking out a few gems to tell the world that it is accurate to the core – such accuracy he...