Reading Notes, Narayan's Mahabharata Part D
Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html
-Yudhishthira wants to make one last plea for peace. Worried about if it's safe for Krishna to go to Hastinapura as his emissary.
-Duryodhana plans to take Krishna captive. While he is there, he sees Kunti and brings news about her sons. Rejects plea for peace from Krishna.
-Krishna and Karna talk. Tries to get Karna to abondon Duryodhana, but he refuses.
-Yudhishthira makes Dhrishtadyumna, Draupadi's brother, the commander of his troops. Bhishma is the commander of Duryodhana's troops. Battle takes place on the field of Kurukshetra.
-Dhrishtadyumna tries desperately to kill Drona to avenge his father's humiliation, but Drona escapes him. Bhishma attacks Krishna and draws blood, which enrages Arjuna, but when Krishna goes to slay Bhishma with his discus, Arjuna begs him not to (pg 151).
-Drona is now made the commanding general of Duryodhana's armies. At Duryodhana's urging, Drona attempts to capture Yudhishthira alive and sets up a diversion to lead Arjuna away from the main battle (pg 156).
-Karna uses an invincible weapon he had reserved for Arjuna in order to kill Ghatotkacha.
-Duhshasana, Duryodhana's brother, gets killed by Bhima.
-Arjuna kills Karna. Shalya is made supreme commander.
-Sahadeva kills Shakuni, Duryodhana's uncle.
-he Pandavas together with Vidura, Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra, along with the women, perform rituals for the dead. Yudhishthira tells the sage Narada that he feels no joy in the victory and grieves over the dead. Narada explains to Yudhishthira how Karna's guru Parashurama had cursed Karna for having deceived him.
-Yudhishthira finally becomes king.
-Yudhishthira cremates Bhishma on the shore.
-Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti go to live in the forest and die there in a forest fire. Krishna's people destroy themselves in a civil war, and his city Dwaraka is swallowed by the sea. As Krishna sleeps on the bank of a river, he is killed by a hunter who mistakes the soles of Krishna's feet for birds. The Pandavas die one by one until only Yudhishthira is left, who departs for heaven in his bodily form. Parikshit, the child of Abhimanyu, and thus Arjuna's grandson, grows up to be king at Hastinapura, continuing the Pandava line (pg 177. 'End of the Story').
-Yudhishthira wants to make one last plea for peace. Worried about if it's safe for Krishna to go to Hastinapura as his emissary.
-Duryodhana plans to take Krishna captive. While he is there, he sees Kunti and brings news about her sons. Rejects plea for peace from Krishna.
-Krishna and Karna talk. Tries to get Karna to abondon Duryodhana, but he refuses.
-Yudhishthira makes Dhrishtadyumna, Draupadi's brother, the commander of his troops. Bhishma is the commander of Duryodhana's troops. Battle takes place on the field of Kurukshetra.
-Dhrishtadyumna tries desperately to kill Drona to avenge his father's humiliation, but Drona escapes him. Bhishma attacks Krishna and draws blood, which enrages Arjuna, but when Krishna goes to slay Bhishma with his discus, Arjuna begs him not to (pg 151).
-Drona is now made the commanding general of Duryodhana's armies. At Duryodhana's urging, Drona attempts to capture Yudhishthira alive and sets up a diversion to lead Arjuna away from the main battle (pg 156).
-Karna uses an invincible weapon he had reserved for Arjuna in order to kill Ghatotkacha.
-Duhshasana, Duryodhana's brother, gets killed by Bhima.
-Arjuna kills Karna. Shalya is made supreme commander.
-Sahadeva kills Shakuni, Duryodhana's uncle.
-he Pandavas together with Vidura, Sanjaya and Dhritarashtra, along with the women, perform rituals for the dead. Yudhishthira tells the sage Narada that he feels no joy in the victory and grieves over the dead. Narada explains to Yudhishthira how Karna's guru Parashurama had cursed Karna for having deceived him.
-Yudhishthira finally becomes king.
-Yudhishthira cremates Bhishma on the shore.
-Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti go to live in the forest and die there in a forest fire. Krishna's people destroy themselves in a civil war, and his city Dwaraka is swallowed by the sea. As Krishna sleeps on the bank of a river, he is killed by a hunter who mistakes the soles of Krishna's feet for birds. The Pandavas die one by one until only Yudhishthira is left, who departs for heaven in his bodily form. Parikshit, the child of Abhimanyu, and thus Arjuna's grandson, grows up to be king at Hastinapura, continuing the Pandava line (pg 177. 'End of the Story').
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