Episode #98 The End This is the last episode of my book Mahabharata Janani Janmabhoomi. Mahabharata is the history of kings and sages, essence of all sacred texts, beautiful in language, with subtle meanings and logic. It is a great storehouse of knowledge adorned with beautiful words and rhyme. With the evolution of the universe, evolved the inexhaustible seeds of all it's inhabitants, movable and immovable, earth, water, wind, years, seasons, all came into existence. The epic covers a time period of about one thousand years, roughly 800CE to 400AD. It is the longest epic written till date. It is the handicraft of multiple authors. It traverses a time span of one thousand years and not a single day or year. In olden days, who spoke Sanskrit were called Aryas and who did not are Mlecchas. But today's context Aryas stands for ethnicity. Mahabharata is classified into eighteen Parvas (section) each Parvas has many Adhyas (chapters). Each Adhyas has number of couplets or shlokas
Untold story episode #97 Few months later Janamejaya and Laxmani got married. After 12 years of courtship with Janamejaya, he died and she became the first woman emperor of Bharat Varsh, with the blessing of her father Duryodhana when he breathed last came true - this was the beginning of the women liberation, women equality, women empowerment. First rule she imposed that there would be o war on this Janmabhoomi (motherland) so that no mother get devastated losing her son in the battlefield. No wife lives life of widows of martyrs and no children should be orphanage and outcast hereafter! She opened schools especially for women and created the special jobs for women; she gave equal rights and empowered women to be independent. In past 5000 years, we had not fought a single major war in comparison with the epic war of Mahabharata. Princess Laxmani disappeared after 100 years, she ruled Bharat Varsh for 16 years after the death of her husband and she was remembered as "Janani J