World Lit

Summary of the Mahabharata
The Mahabharata tells the story of two sets of paternal first cousins--the phoebe bird sons of the deceased king Pandu (the volt Pandavas and the one hundred sons of screen King Dhritarashtra--who became bitter rivals, and opposed each other in war for possession of the ancestral Bharata kingdom with its capital in the City of the Elephants, Hastinapura , on the Ganga river in north central India. What is dramatically interesting within this simple opposition is the large quash of individual agendas the umpteen characters pursue, and the numerous personal conflicts, ethical puzzles, sub pieces, and plot twists that give the story a strikingly powerful development.

The five sons of Pandu were actually fathered by five Gods (sex was mortally dangerous for Pandu, because of a curse) and these heroes were assisted throughout the story by various Gods, sages, and brahmins, including the large sage Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa (who later became the author of the epic telling this story), who was as well their actual grandfather (he had engendered Pandu and the blind Dhrtarastra upon their nominal fathers widows in parliamentary procedure to preserve the lineage).



The one hundred sons of the blind king Dhartarashtra, on the other hand, had a grotesque, demonic birth, and atomic number 18 said more than than once in the text to be human incarnations of the demons who are the perpetual enemies of the devotees of the lord. The most dramatic figure of the entire Mahabharata, however, is Sri Krishna who is the irresponsible personality of Godhead himself, descended to earth in human cause to reestablish his devotees as care takers of the earth, and who practice Dharma. Krishna Vasudeva was the cousin of two parties, but he was a friend and advisor to the Pandavas, became the brother-in-law of Arjuna , and served as Arjunas mentor and charioteer in the great war. Krishna Vasudeva is portrayed several time as eager to see the war occur, and in many ways the Pandavas were his human instruments for...If you want to get a in force(p) essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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