Reading Notes: Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution, Part E

Possible ruins of Indraprastha


Subhadra - Krishna's sist er
  • Wants to marry Arjuna
  • Abducted by Arjuna so they could marry
Balarama - older brother of Krishna
  • did not approve of Subhadra marrying Arjuna at first
  • wanted to attack Indraprastha and save Subhadra until Krishna explained that Arjuna and Subhadra were actually in love
  • approved of their marriage after that
Draupudi - Wife of the Pandavas
  • eventually approved of Arjuna marrying Subhadra after getting to know her and liking her
  • refused to appear as a slave to the court, but was dragged out
  • protected in the court by Krishna

Abhimanyu - son of Arjuna and Subhadra
  • maintained all the knowledge of war Arjuna told Subhadra while she was pregnant with him
  • never learned all the information he needed to escape the 7th circle of the chakravyuh because his mother fell asleep while his father told her about it
  • trained by Pradyumna, Krishna's cousin, and Arjuna
Narad - sage
  • predicted that the Pandavas should be married to Draupadi one at a time and that Yudhishthir should do a Rajasuya Yagya, a fire ritual, so that their relatives who have died will be treated well by Indra
Yudhishthir - eldest Pandava
  • worried about doing the yagya because it would leave the kingdom unprotected from rival leaders
  • convinced by Krishna that he should defeat Jarasandh before doing the yagya 
  • crowned emperor during the yagya
  • lost his treasury of gold, silver, and jewels; wealth; chariot; army; horses; and his kingdom to the Kauravas in the game of dice orchestrated by Duryodhana
  • then bet his brothers and lost them
  • then lost himself to the Kauravas
  • finally lost Draupadi to the Kauravas to serve as maid
Jarasandh - king Magadh who hated the Pandavas
  • held many kings captive to gain power
  • torn in two by Bhima in a 13 day long battle
  • came back to life after the two pieces came back together
  • finally defeated when Bhima threw the two pieces far away from each other
 Shishupal - king of Chedi
  • hates Krishna because Krishna married Rukmini
  • very angry when Krishna given the honors at the yagya and insulted Krishna and the Pandavas
  • Krishna agreed to pardon 100 of his insults with SHishupal's mother
  • killed by Krishna after insulting him more than 100 times during the yagya
Duryodhana - eldest Kaurava 
  • very jealous of Yudhishthir's crowning as emperor
  • embarrassed when he mistook a crystal floor for a pool and then a pool for a crystal floor
  • Draupudi laughed at him when he fell in the pool
Shakuni
  • very good at playing dice
  • came up with a plan to get Yudhishthir to bet his kingdom on a game of dice
Dhritarashtra
  • gave his blessing to Shakuni's plan

Bibliography.
Mahabharata: Karmic Revolution, Part E by Epified. Source

Image Source.
By Shailendra.verma00 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

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