sage parasara seduces satyavati in the boat
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the story begins in the city of hastinapura
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hastina pura was ruled by a king dritarashtra.
he was blind.
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the five pandavas when they were kids
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0 = yudhistira
@ = bhima
O = arjuna
o,o = nakula, sahadeva
and their 100 kaurava cousins.
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krishna growing up in mathura
as a cowherd
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young arjuna taking aim
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pandavas and their mother kunthi lived in
the booby trapped (they didnt know at first, it was booby trapped)
house at varanavata
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a secret laborer sent by vidura,
dug an escape hole for them.
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one night,
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A day, earlier a tribal woman and her
five children had come to the house.
They had been staying in the house as guests.
They succumbed to the fire and
their charred bodies were mistaken for the pandavas.
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bhima
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While the pandavas were living in ekchakra,
living on alms, they split their alms which they got every day
into two portions.
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One portion was given to bhima,
who had always a voracious apetite.
The rest of the brothers and mother ate the other posrtion.
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bhima challenges baka
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they fought with small trees and mountains
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bhima finishes off baka
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arjuna taking an arrow from his quiver
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krishna enticing the gopikas
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draupadi
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arjuna marries draupadi
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Draupadi is the comon wife of the five pandava brothers.
During an year, she sleeps, with only one of them,
based on a rotating turn.
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krishna is honoured as the cheif of ceremonies,
at yudhistira's rajasuya yaga.
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krishna beheads sisupala(with his discuss)
at yudhistara's rajasuya yaga
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a game of dice was played in the kaurava assembly hall,
and all was lost.
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sakuni consecutively won all rounds
and yudhishtira lost everything everything,
including his brothers and even his wife draupadi
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dusasana dragged draupadi by her hair to the courtyard
(the vilest treatment you can give to woman)
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dusasana disrobes draupadi
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as pandavas sat there watching o o O @ 0 (/k /\%\)\/% /\/ X><>)X> _kg |
visibly irasced, bhima stood up and then said ,
may I never get the heaven as envisaged by my ancestors,
but i wouldnt lied down till i havent crushed the very limbs
that you used to humilate her, in a face to face battle.
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pandavas and their beloved wife draupadi had to spend
12 years of exile in the forest
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arjuna with the gandiva bow
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cattle robbing
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At the virata's palace where the pandavas were finishing
the last year of the exile incognito, drupadi worked in disguise
as a maid to queen sudeshna
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krishna mediating
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preparations of war
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