Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata Part B
Bibliography: Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913)
- Vidura, the Pandavas uncle, helps them figure out Duryodhana's evil plot and they escape their death. However, Duryodhana thinks they actually died.
- The Pandavas hide in the wilderness and Bhima meets a femal rakshasa who loves him. He defeats her evil brother and they wed and have a son.
- Draupadi is the beautiful daughter of Drupada. The king has a swayamwara to find a husband for her. Duryodhana and his brothers are there as well as Karna.
- Karna tries to win her but Draupadi is against marrying him since he is low-born so Arjuna wins her.
- All 5 Pandavas have to share Draupadi due to a previous declaration so Drupada and Krishna give them gifts.
- Yudhishthira receives his own kingdom to rule which he does well.
- The Pandavas make a pact that when one of them is with Draupadi none of the others can enter. Arjuna breaks this and has to go into exile for 12 year.
- Arjuna meets Ulupi and they have a child, Iravat.
- Arjuna meets Chitra who he also had a child with.
- Arjuna marries Subhadra, Krishna's sister, and basically steals her from Duryodhana.
- They have a boy named Abhimmayu
- Mayasura, the architect of heaven, builds the Pandavas a grand palace which makes Duryodhana even more jealous.
- Yudhishthira wants to become the supreme monarch but they have to defeat the undefeatable king, Jarasandha.
- Krishna, Arjuna, and Bhima go to Jarasandha and defeat him with cunning and Yudhishthira becomes the supreme monarch.
- Yudhishthira has a gambling match against Duryodhana and loses everything including his brothers and Draupadi.
- Then Draupadi gets them their freedom back, but Yudhishthira loses another dice game and they go into exile for 12 years.
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