Reading Notes Part A: Mahabarata

Alandur draupadi amman, Wikicommons

Mahabarata:

  • The birth from the flying car and the falling semen that was eaten by a fish to give birth was interesting 
  • Ganga incarnation kills the babies and this is odd
  • The babies are sacrificed because the cows were stolen
  • The king is unable to protest, but the eighth baby he does
  • This eighth baby is returned as a grown up
  • The second wedding he renounces children and then has two
  • The sons grow up and one becomes king but dies
  • The next rules the other brother
  • The swayamvara has three brides stolen, this is interesting
  • The abnormally white baby is treated different 
  • Rest of the babies are normal and loved
  • Satyavati's fish smell was transforme into perfume
  • The acts of Gandhari of covering her eyes to match her husband's blindness
  • Pandu's punishment of killing a deer having sex is that he will die having sex
  • Pandu dies while having sex with Madri and Madri commits suicide, Kunti must raise 5 kids
  • There is a secret path to escape the fire
  • A rakshasa is found in the forest and is killed
  • Draupadi has a swayamvara and Krishna arrives, the incarnation of Vishnu
  • Draupadi had 5 husbands in a previous life and has 5 husbands agian

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