Episode#44 The war clouds gathered swiftly in the sky - the sky was painted with orange and golden hues which would soon turn crimson red by sunset. Dhrishtadyumna, Draupadi twin brother and the son of king Drupada was appointed the Commander-in-chief of the Pandavas army. Yuyutsu son of Dhritarashtra begotten by his maid defected the Laura as and joined the Pandavas. Duryodhana requested Bhisma Pitamah to be the commander-in-chief of the Kauravas army since he was aware that Pitamah was blessed with two boons - first that he would not meet death at the hands of a man and secondly he could choose his own moment of death wishful death. Bhisma Pitamah agreed to be the commander-in-chief on two conditions: first that he would not kill any of the Pandavas even if the entire Kauravas army was destroyed since both Kauravas and Pandavas are dear to him and second that he would fight the war only if Karna refrained from stepping into the battlefield. Duryodhana had no choice but to agree t...

Episode#43 Before Mahabharata war began, Vasudev Krishna asked all Pandavas how many days they would take to finish the war of Mahabharata alone. Bhisma Pitamah answered that he would take 20 days, Drona replied 25 days, Karna said 24 days and Arjuna told 28 days, when he asked how many days he would take to finish the war alone, Barbarika answered that he could finish it in one minute. He stated that a single arrow is enough to destroy all his opponents in the war, and it would then return back to his quiver. Barbarika was the grandson of Bhima the son of Ghatokacha, Barbarika was very brave in his childhood, and he learned the art of warfare from his mother. The god ashtadev gave him the three infallible arrows, hence he was known as "Bearer of Three Arrows" when Barbarika learnt that battle between Pandavas and Kauravas as has become inevitable, he felt the urge to participate in the battle and witness the Mahabharata war. He promised his mother that he would join the we...

Episode#42 When Vasudev Krishna heard about Samba he was distressed and he asked his elder brother Balarama help to rescue his son. Balarama readily agreed to go to Hastinapur to rescue his favourite nephew. Since Balarama was Guru of Duryodhana, he was welcomed in Hastinapur with great dignity in the presence of all elders of Kuru family including Duryodhana. Balarama apologized for Samba's childish act and requested them to pardon him! The Kauravas were perplexed about Laxmani impending marriage! Balarama assured them they would gladly accept Laxmani as their daughter-in-law, but Duryodhana was against the marriage as he was not ready that his qualified daughter marries to illiterate brat Samba that too the son of his enemy Krishna - today he was in such a dilemma and had a no choice but to accept Balarama proposal...! After a long silence Duryodhana replied "With all due respect to Guru Balarama, I cannot disobey your order, but you will understand my feelings as a fath...

Episode#41 The Royal Ordeals and Pre-preparations of swayamwara began in real earnest, invitations were sent to all the eligible Princes except the Yadavas Princes namely Abhimanyu and Samba - Laxmani, though heartbroken after hearing that Abhimanyu was married to Vatsala, she expected him to be present as she did not mind being his second wife, however, she refrained from confiding her love to her father. When Samba realized that he was not invited for Laxmani swayamwara, he left for Hastinapur to attend the swayamwara without informing his father Vasudev Krishna, he was sure that she will g arland him and he confidently mingled amongst the other Princes. The grand moment arrived and princess Laxmani looking extremely gorgeous clad in a stunning pink couture - tiptoed in the hall flanked by her brother Laxmana Kumar on one side and Vidura on other. As Vidura introduced her to every prince, her eyes searched frantically for Abhimanyu but everything was in vain! She was sad and mise...

Episode#40 When the exile period of 13 years was over, Vasudev Krishna (as a representative of the Pandavas) headed to Hastinapur and demanded the rightful share of the kingdom, despite of his wife Bhanumati and son Laxmana Kumar pleading for peace, Duryodhana went back on his words and refused to give back there kingdom Indraprashta. The refusal culminated into Mahabharata war that lasted for 18 days in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Duryodhana avenged Krishna for not allowing him to marry Subhadra by refusing the peace-pact, if Duryodhana has married to Subhadra and his son to Vatsala - he would have willingly accepted Vasudev Krishna proposal of returning Indraprashta to Pandavas and this great war of Mahabharata could have been averted. Even after his marriage Duryodhana couldn't forget his first interaction with Subhadra at the bank of Yamuna river, he cannot forget her beautiful face and voluptuous body lying on the stone drenched in a single cloth, he still reminisced ov...

Episode#39 After Pandavas lost their Kingdom in the dice game and were exiled, Balaram's wife Revathi was worried about her daughter alliance - Pandavas had lost their Kingdom and Abhimanyu was no longer a prince, just an commoner, they decided that Duryodhana son Laxmana Kumar was more ideally suited to Vatsala since he was a prince possessing a large kingdom. This they proposed Duryodhana to accept Vatsala as their daughter-in-law. On other hand, Abhimanyu who had spent considerable time of his childhood in Dwaraka was already in love with slim, slender Vatsala, hearing the news of Vatsala marriage, the heartbroken Abhimanyu disclosed his silent love to his uncle Krishna who advised that in past he had already invited ill-feelings from Balaram during the Arjuna and Subhadra marriage, he advised him to take the help of his cousin brother Ghatotkacha (son of Bhima and Hidimba) when Abhimanyu approached him, the latter was happy to help him. As planned Ghatotkacha helped Abhimany...

Episode#38 Vatsala, the beautiful daughter of Balaram and Revathi she was very slim and slender girl having very sharp and sweet features, barely over 14 years was never attracted to the mascular boys like Abhimanyu, she was attracted to soft and sweet boys who are not into fighting war and thus she fell in love at first sight with Laxmana Kumar, his long curly hair, sweet face. After having observed him closely during training, she had correctly concluded that he shun the training and preferred to sit on the shore of Prabhasa, in spite Balaram strict instructions that he may go only after his training session but he would disappear before the training commence and Balaram would sent Vatsala to bring him back, this almost became a daily routine. One day on the shore of Prabhasa, when Laxmana Kumar and Vatsala were talking, he asked "do you know something?" He continues "I have seen painting of a boy lips on girl lips" she blushed and asked "so what?" He...