Reading Guide
I plan on finishing this epic within a day or so, but so far I do really like how it is progressing.
As I stated last week, I found it really surprising that Yudhishthira lost control and ended up losing everything!
Even his own wife, that was the one thing I thought would be essentially untouchable.
- Following a second dice game, Yudhishthira loses again and is forced to go into exile in the forest, for twelve years with the last year in a city but they must be incognito.
- If not they will be subjected to another twelve year exile.
- Everyone is so frustrated and yearning for the time to fly by. Yudhishthira is visited by Krishna and assures him that his enemies will be slain.
- Essentially Draupadi goes off on Yudhishthira for allowing her and his brothers to go through such humiliation
- Arjuna receives divine weapons, after being told a mantra given to Yudhishthira by Krishna to aid in their ventures.
- Arjuna is cursed by Urvashi while visiting Indra, for avoiding her advances, to live as a eunuch among women. Which ended up being a blessing when they went into the city to live incognito.
- Each brother and Draupadi assumes a different identity to live in a city unnoticed
- Their cousins are of course scouring the land trying to use spies to find them.
- Every brother except Yudhishthira dies after not heeding the word of the voice of a lake they encounter.
- Ends up being a test by the god of Justice
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| Arjuna Image Source: Wikipedia |
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