Skip to main content

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bow, Arjuna cast a continuous stream of arrows with the speed of lightening - that none could see when the shafts were withdrawn from the quiver nor when they were set on the bow.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.

+++

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Gandhari Curse to Krishna

Episode#78 "I curse you Krishna, if I have been a devoted and faithful wife, may my curse come true! Oh Krishna, mark my words - after 36 years from today, you will slay your own kinsmen akin to Pandavas and Kauravas! Your cousins, their sons, and grandsons will kill each other while you  Krishna, will wander alone in the woods and die a lonely and Ignominious death! Your dear ones shall run around the woods in desperation and grief exactly in the same manner as these women are doing now." Krishna allow Gandhari to spew her venomous fury out of her system and accepted the curse calmly and with Grace! He replied with a smiling face, "Your curse is preordained by fate. As none can destroy Yadavas, they are destined to slay each other and meet their destruction at their own hands." She looked at Draupadi "Look Draupadi, your hair is dyed with the blood of my son Dusshasana, but to get that blood, so much of rage was generated that it cost you the lives of your...

Vyasa

Episode#9 The story of the origin of Vyasa was known to a few as he was born in the middle of the night under strange circumstances. The story goes thus - Satyavati, also known as Matasya-Gandha' (since she smelled like a fish) she ferried people across river Ganga. One winter evening, the sun was about to set and she was contemplating to return home but when elderly sage named Parasar requested her to leave him on the opposite shore. Finding improper to decline him, she envisaged her last trip for the sake of the sage, when they were in the middle of the river, the sage expressed his desire to make love to her and have a child by her, with fear and apprehension, she said "if I bear a child, no one will marry me". The sage comforted and promised her, "do not worry, with my magical powers you will bear a child now but also regain your virginity." He also blessed her that she will never smell of fish; instead she will emit fragrance of flowers that all men wil...

Janamejaya: Son of King Parikshit

Untold story: Episode #94 Janamejaya was the son of King Parikshit; his mother name was Iravati or Madravati. He ruled Indraprastha for 84 years 7 months and 23 days. King Janamejaya be got two sons Jnatanika and Sankukarna. He became the king of Hastinapur after the death of his father King Parikshit. Janamejaya was tall and well built, he had a long golden hair, heavy biceps and broad shoulders,  every night he dreams that he is holding a beautiful young girl from her waist, bending over her and put his lips on her lips and he wakes up, he remained worried about such dreams and didn't know whom should he share his dreams?  When king Janamejaya came to know that his father killer Takshaka is roaming free as he was protected by Lord Indra. He decided to avenge the unlawful curse upon his father King Parikshit to kill the race of Nagar, he performed a great sacrifice called Sarpa-yajna, to kill the race of Nagas, including Takshaka who had bitten his father to death.  On t...