Monday, February 27, 2017

Reading Notes: Epified Mahabharata Part A

Mahabharata: 
  • I learned that the Mahabharata is pronounced exactly as it is spelled through these videos haha 
  • The Mahabharata is an account of how karma happens 
  • The king fell in love with the river goddess
    • the Ganga said yes
    • she wanted him to never question her decision and he agreed
    • queen ganga drowned their first child--he asked no questions 
    • she continued to kill their next 6 children 
    • the children had been killed to free the celestial spirits 
  • The king found himself back on the banks after she left him 
    • he found his son and wife again 
    • the king lost his heart to a fisherman's daughter and asked her to marry him 
    • she refused 
    • his son went to sooth the pain in his father's heart
  • he went to beg the fisherman
    • he swore an oath: he would never marry nor father any children 
    • he became known as "he of the terrible oath"
    • the king eventually found himself guilty 
    • he granted his son a boon--death would never touch him unless he requested so 
    • I'd like to write about his journey with death (something like HP when the man with the invisible cloak escaped death always)
Screenshot by me of Devavrat's Oath.


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