Week 6 Reading Diary: The Mahabharata Part C

For the beginning of this week I had to go back over the reading diaries I wrote last week in order to catch up on where I left off and refresh my memory of what happen at the beginning of the story.

• We left off with the Pandavas back in exile
• Exile seems to be a reoccurring theme is Indian epics as well as sages
• Krishna visits the Pandavas
• Arjuna is the son of the God Indra
• The four Pandavas brother go to the Himalayas and are joined by their brother Arjuna who was out looking for weapons
• Bhima is Hunama's brother
• Karna has pledged his allegiance to Duryodhana and swears to kill Arjuna
• Indra is worried about his son, Arjuna, because Karna has armor of gold and invincibility earrings so he goes and steals them from Karna.
• The last years of exile must be spent in hiding
• Arjuna disguises himself as a dance teacher.
• Duryodhana attacks King Virata and his cattle. The Pandavas come to his aid because Kind Virata has been kidding them
• Virata has a son named Uttara and a daughter named Uttarā
• Pandavas exile is over. Yay
• Krishna and Arjuna are very close and he chooses Krishna over an army
• Krishna's divine form is Vishnu
• Karna never knows that the Pandavas are his brothers
• The characters prepare for war. Some old characters return and some new characters are introduced
• Most famous part of this story is the Bhagavad-Gita, or "Lord's Song"
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  Arjuna and the celestial beings.

All accounts of The Mahabharata are found in The Public Domain found below
Mahabharata Online: Public Domain Edition