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(Done by Andrew Jang) =§-Mahabharata-§ = = =


 * Introduction **

There are a ton of Indian Mythology stories. In many other stories, there is one main story, Mahabharata. Mahabharata is an epic story of ancient stories of India. To summarize, Mahabhrata is a poem which is mythological chronicle of India and also it is the longest poem in the world. It contains many battles, and many heroic stories. The story focuses on the main gods and goddess of Indian.This has a total of 19 chapters, from the beginning and the end, and total of 100 side chapters.


 * Main characters **

◙Vyasa: this character is the narrator of the story and he is the father of various gods in the story ◙Vhishma: half-uncle by marriage of Pandu and Dhritarashtra ◙Dhritarashtra: blind king, father of Duryodhana and the Kauravas and other one hundred sons. ◙Gandhari: Queen of Dhritarashtra ◙Kunti: wife of Pandu and mother to the five Pandavas and Karna ◙Yudhishthira: The leader of the Pandavas, rightful heir to the throne ◙Bhima: The strongest of the Pandava brothers ◙Arjuna: The mightiest of warriors ◙Nakula and Sahadeva: Pandava twins ◙Draupadi: The wife to the five Pandavas ◙Duryodhana: The leader of the Kauravas ◙Duhsasana: The brother of Duryodhana ◙Krishna: The supporter of the Pandavas and avatar of Vishnu ◙Drona: The teacher of the Pandavas and Kauravas ◙Karna: The warrior, secret son of Kunti, ally of the Kauravas


 * Summary of the Story **

Long time ago, there was a king named Pandu. He had five sons, which were always obedient and dutiful and always loved by their kingdom. Those five sons were also born as a God and they were called as [|Pandavas]. There was also another king named Dhritarashtra, who was blind. He had one hundred sons. Those sons had a grotesque and evil way of born, and the book said they were human incarnation of the demons. One day those two kings had a gamble, "the game of dice". The rule was simple. The winner, gets everything: lands and power to control the kingdom. As the result, the Pandavas party has lost their gamble, so they were banished from the kingdom for 12 years. As time pasts, this event sparked the rage between those two parties. Any how there were many wars between those  parties for 6 years. There was an another character named "Lord [|Krishna]". On the Mahabharata, he was an incarnation of the God. The reason why the God has come to this human world was to relieve the world of evil people and restore faith in his devotes. Lord Krishna imparted the valuable and practical lessons of the Bhagawad Gita, a text of the conversation between Lord Krishna and [|Arjuna], where Lord Krishna shows Arjuna a glimpse of his majestic divine form. Lord Krishna took many places at the variable wars. After 6 years of the fight, The Pandavas party has won the war. The blind king Dhritarashtra and his wife left the kingdom and went to the forest to have a free life of ascetic. Lord Krishna left the earth after thirty six years after the battle took place. When those five Pandavas thought that they realized that it was time to leave the earth. Those five sons of Pandavas died one by one, but the eldest son, Yudhishthira, were the only one left and he took a journey to the North on foot. Finally he reaches to the heaven's gate. The book said that the gates of heaven opened on the northern horizon. The story ends with a final test of his virtue. which was a desire to be united again with his family.


 * Impacts **

Because this Mahabharata was written centuries ago and it was a form of a poem, there are many different translation. By this long epic poem, Many other Indian epic stories were written in a poem form. While primarily a book was written with the acts of mankind, it had a major impact on Hindu belief because of the role that Krishna plays the climax of this epic poem. He acts as a counsel to the hero, Arjuna, on the way of universe.

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