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Mahabharata War Day 11

Episode#65

On the Eleventh day, the war-fare vividly demonstrated by Front stupendous skills and expertise. He destroyed Pandavas forces with which the hungry tounge of raging like a fire burning up dry logs. His rapid movements made the Pandavas army feel as if Drona was Omni-present showering of arrows staging the battlefield in a way to initiate the dance of God of death.

Drona led a straight attack on Yudhishtira, his golden chariot drawn by four horses headed in the direction of Yudhishtira who aimed at him barbed arrow, feathered with eagle feathers. Suddenly Yudhishtira bow was dismembered; Dhrishtadyumna tried to intercept Drona but in vain. The whole army shouted: "Yudhishtira has been taken!" Suddenly Arjuna appeared on the battlefield, the wheels of the chariot rumbling over the bloody field, bones and bodies lying in heaps, Arjuna using his expert fingers on his Gandiva bow, Arjuna cast a continuous stream of arrows with the speed of lightening - that none could see when the shafts were withdrawn from the quiver nor when they were set on the bow.

The endless slate of arrows blanketed the sky mimicking the black clouds covering the sky. And finally, Drona had to retreat! Yudhishtira was saved. At the end of the day, the Laura as force went to their camp in a chastened mood. The Pandavas army walked proudly towards the camp and behind them walked Krishna and Arjuna engrossed in conversation. Thus that brought the end of the eleventh day of the war.

Far away in the palace of Hastinapur, Laxmana Kumar entered his sister's room she was watching a painting. Last year after holiday see collected some colours and painted a picture of Abhimanyu his long golden hair, his slew less jacket showing his biceps, he was holding her waist with one hand, he bent over her, his lips on her lips. While painting lips locking she felt fire in her body and also felt guilty and hence she always kept this painting in her cupboard. Looking Kumar she immediately folded the painting and put it back in the cupboard, Kumar knew the painting was of his sister and Abhimanyu, he sat on the chair and said "You know sister, in Dwarka I asked Vatsala can I put my lips on your lips." Looking at her sister he continued "You know what she said? It is Yadavas customs you cannot touch any girl unless you marry her." Laxmani was suspiciously listening to her brother and said "How can you say such thing to any young and unmarried girl?" Kumar innocently replied "I just wanted to feel fire inside me." Laxmani questioned "By the way where did you saw this painting?" He smiles at her and replied "I have seen that painting in your cupboard." Now Laxmani was angry and shouted "How dare you can do that brother?" Kumar shrugged and replied "Just like that" and he laughed and continued "You know sister, I don't regret my marriage didn't happen with Marsala, what I regret is I could not put my lips on her lips." That made her laugh aloud, and Kumar was happy to see his sister laughing.

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