Reading Notes, The Five Tall Sons of Pandu Part A

  Bibliography: Richard Wilson, The Indian Story Book: The Five Tall Sons of Pandu

-Pandu is the father of these five tall sons.

-Names are Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. Nakula and Sahadeva are twins. 

-Pandu dies and his blind brother becomes king, Dhritarashtra. He has 100 sons.

-Drona trains princes in arts of war. Once they grow up, they have a tournament about arts of war.

-Duryodhana crowns Anga the kind of Huga.

-A Charioteer enters the tournament and it is Karnas dad.

-Duryodhana tries to trap the Pandava in a burning house with their mom but they escape as hermits.

-Drupada sets up an archery target thinking only Arjuna will win. Arrjuna strings the bow and shoots the target.

-Arjuna then takes Draupadi home and tells his mother he has won a prize. Kunti declares that it must belong to Yudhishthira as the eldest, so Draupadi will be the wife of Yudhishthira, not Arjuna.

-Pandavas have made an alliance with King Drupada, Duryodhana divides the kingdom. Duryodhana takes the richer part of the kingdom and gives the western portion on the river Yamuna to the Pandavas. They build a royal city and perform a special sacrifice to make Yudhishthira king.

-When Yudhishthira honors Krishna as the guest of honor, Shishupala, King of Chedi, gets angry. 

-Shakuni cheats in the game of dice and Yudhishthira loses everything. Dhritarashtra thinks the Pandavas shouldn't be slaves.

-Draupadi gets summoned and refuses to go. Prince Dushasana drags her into the chamber. Wants her husband to avenge her but really can't do anything. Draupadi and the Pandavas go into the forest for 12 years and the 13th they must be disguised.

-While the Pandavas are in exile, Duryodhana comes to visit and mock them, but he ends up needing their help to escape, and that makes Duryodhana hate the Pandavas even more.

-Yudhishthira is a brahmin priest, Bhima a cook, Arjuna a dancing master, Nakula is a stableboy, and Sahadeva is a cowboy and Draupadi as a hairdresser to the queen.

-Arjuna reveals that they are the weapons of the Pandavas. Uttara then asks where the Pandavas are now. Arjuna then reveals the truth about their disguised identities. It is now time for the Pandavas and Draupadi to reclaim their kingdom.


Five Tall Sons of Pandu

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