Reading Notes: Mahabharata part B


Hey everyone, NitroDubbz here again with Narayan's Mahabharata.

The Pandava brothers all got married to Draupadi and now have gone off and built a prosperous city in the desert. Yudhistira then gets cleaned out in a game of dice by his cousin Sakuni, who is working with his other brothers to try and weaken the Pandava brother's empire because they are jealous and worried of their growing power and influence. However, Sakuni goes too far and Vidura, the advisor to king Dhritarashtra, warns that Sakuni is only going to anger the Pandava brothers and make their vengeance twice as bad. Dhritarashtra, initially ignoring Vidura, changes his mind when he is moved by Draupadi's prayer to Vishnu that was answered with a miracle. He grants her several boons, restoring the freedom of the Pandava brothers and their kingdom. Then the Pandava brothers get invited to another game and lose all their stuff and are banished to the wildnerness this time. Then Vidura goes and joins them because Dhritarashtra kicked him out. Then Arjuna gets some weapons from Shiva and Indra.

Well that's all for today folks, until next time, I'm Nitrodubbz




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