Extra Credit Reading Notes: Narayan's Mahabharata Part B

These notes are from The Mahabharata by R.K Narayan printed in 1998 (Book Version). This chapter is, "Stakes Unmatched" (dice game!).

• So this dice game/gambling game is so that Duryodhana can beat his cousin Yudhistira. This is after Duryodhana went to Y's palace and saw how great it is. 
• This is such a petty man thing to do
• Also, a dice game doesn't prove anything  
• Apparently Y feels guilty about gambling, but he can't refuse the offer. 
• Y is kinda annoying, "No cheating! It's bad"
• Lame! Duryodhana is having his uncle Sakuni play for him (what's the point of that? 
• Y is losing everything, it's kinda funny. Why keep betting all of these things is you keep losing? Don't give up your army and your sheep, fool!
• Vidura is telling the king, Dhitarashtra to kill his son! 
• the son was born evil- screaming like a jackal
• Vidura is kinda right though, the king lets Duryodhana do whatever he wants. It would be better if the Pandavas were allies instead of enemies
• The king refuses, duh, but Vidura stays. The king will probably be betrayed by his sons (or die because of them)
• Y bet his brother, Nakula- Y is kinda awful lol
• Okay, ew about the description his wife that he is gambling away! "who is an ideal wife to guide, serve, and sustain a man at all times- ble.
• And Y gives his wife (and his brothers wife) away to his enemies! 
• They take her as a slave-what will Y do now?? He actually has no one. 
• Oh boom! Of course the smart wife has a way out of this-queen!
• She explains that if Y bet himself first, he would have no right to deal her away. 
• She's on her period!
• Oh no. They take her anyway :(
• She's still trying to get out of it- she's the smartest one in the room
• Basically, everyone is fighting now
• Draupaidi asks the gods for help! They help
• The men are tying to unrobe her, but more robes keep showing up-sweet!
• So the Pandavas are released! That was kind of a silly game, it just stirred up drama and fighting- I bet now they really dislike each other

   

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Draupadi and Dushasan Scene

Posted by: Mahavir Prasad Mishra 

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