Reading Notes, Epified Mahabharata, Part D

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Ulupi and Arjun
(Source)

  • Theme of lifting bow/stringing it as a test for suitorship
  • Draupadi you jerk. Calling Karna unworthy just because of his birth
  • Arjun actually becomes her husband
  • Pandavas and Draupadi get attacked 7 times while trying to return home
  • Just share the wife you just brought home so you don't fight
  • Are given a kingdom of barren wasteland. Let Indra burn all the rashaksas away. Krishna has Vishnakarna build them a beautiful city.
    • "Flip this house"
  • That sucks : Win a wife fair and square, have to share her with your brothers, each brother gets one year, exiled for 12
  • Just like... ask your brother to give the bow to you instead of getting it yourself. Unless no one else can lift bow. Why isn't it on your chambers anyway?
  • Oh come on. They told you to stay. Why leave?
  • Neat daughter of nagas in the underwater snake city
    • First person story
  • Gets with snake lady, marries king's daughter. Isn't he still Draupadi's husband? then just ditches his new wife
Bibliography: The Mahabharata, by Epified

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