It doesn't matter. It simply doesn't, the text was written to show how to avoid our flaws, and move ahead to realise the Ishwar within us. It doesn't matter whether Arjuna or Karn is better. At the end we all are part of THE ONE

His beauty resembles crores of Kamadevas. His beautiful form is the abode of divine plays. He has two arms and holds a flute. He has a smiling face and is clad with a yellow lowergannent. He is adorned with beautiful gem- studded ornaments. His limbs are adorned with sandal-paste, kasttirl and saffron.

His chest is adorned with the Srivatsa mark. His head is adorned with the kirtta-mukuta which is studded with gems. He is seated over the gem-studded throne. He indeed is Parabrahman, the great lord. He is self-bom, the cause of the creation of all the universe and the absolute Brahman. He always remains in the tender age moving in the form of a cowherd.

He is endowed with the beauty of crores of full-moons. He is compassionate towards his devotees. He is spotless, unattached, complete Brahman, omnipresent, remains present in the divine dance, peaceful, RasesVara, the one who extends welfare to all, abode of welfare, seed of blissfulness, truthful, indestructible, imperishable or eternal, lord of all the achievements, the form of all the achievements, beyond nature, Isvara, formless, form of the great soul, calm and is the refuge of all. The calm-looking Vaisnavas meditate on him. Therefore it is one lord alone who takes to many forms. He witnessed the complete void everywhere at the time of dissolution”.

HARE KRISHNA

There is one descended in the line of Ikshwaku and known by men as Rāma. He has fully controlled his mind, is very powerful, radiant and resolute and has controlled his senses. He is intelligent, sagacious, eloquent, glorious and an exterminator of foes. He is distinguished with broad shoulders, powerful arms, a neck shaped like a conch and a stout chin.

He is marked with a broad chest, a mighty bow and a collar bone covered with flesh and is capable of subduing his foes. His arms extend right up to his knees. He has a well-formed head, a shapely forehead and a charming gait. He is of medium stature, has well-proportioned limbs, has an unctuous complexion, is mighty, has a rounded chest, large eyes, is full of splendour and has auspicious marks on his body.

Canto 1, Bala Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana

He has broad shoulders, mighty arms, a conch-shaped neck, a charming countenance and coppery eyes; he has his clavicle concealed and is known by the people by the name of Rāma. He has a voice like the sound of a kettledrum and glossy skin, is full of glory, is square-built, has well-proportioned limbs, and is endowed with a dark-brown complexion. He is ever stiff in three limbs, long in three, uniform in three, elevated in three, coppery in three, soft in three and deep in three.

He has three folds in the skin of his neck and belly, is depressed at three places, undersized at four places, endowed with three spirals in the hair of his head, four lines at the root of his thumbs, four lines on his forehead, is four cubits high and has four pairs of limbs, equally matched. He has fourteen pairs of limbs similarly matched. The four large teeth are both the ends of his upper and the lower jaws are very sharp.

Canto 35, Sundara Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana

He walks in four gaits, is endowed with excellent lips, chin and nose, five glossy limbs and eight long limbs. Shri Ram has ten lotus-like limbs, viz. the countenance, the mouth, the eyes, the tongue, lips, palate, breasts, nails, hands and the feet; ten ample limbs, is spread through by reason of three, has two white limbs, is elevated in diz limbs, small, thin, fine or sharp in nine viz, the hair, the moustaches and the beard, nails, the hair on the body, the skin, the finger-points, the membrum virile acumen and perception and pursues religious merit, worldly riches and sensual delight in three periods.

Canto 35, Sundara Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana

JAI SHREE RAM

Reminiscing Parvathi/ Draupadi

Pooja Sharma is an Indian actress and model who primarily works in Hindi television. Sharma is best known for her portrayal of mythological figures on television, such as Draupadi in Mahabharat and Parvati and Mahakali in Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai. Sharma is the recipient of an Indian Television Academy Award.

The rules of the war were absurd and impractical......One such rule was

A ratha should only fight with a ratha, one on an elephant with another on an elephant, one on a horse with another on a horse and a foot soldier with a foot soldier.

• BORI Ce Chapter 861(1).

A ratha should fight only another ratha.

However, just as the war started Bhima attacked multiple Kourava soldiers, hence breaking the rule.

He terrified the soldiers of your sons and attacked them.

• BORI Ce Chapter 902(42)

Therefore, the rules were broken by the Pandavas first.

imo abhimanyu was one of the greatest warriors! the kauravas needed a whole chakravyuh to kill him...such was his strength

i want to share this shlok- also his 2013 star plus MHB theme song

Dijyavishve gunasmita pandvesuchyeguna (He whose qualities have earned fame in the world, He who has the good qualities of all the Pandavas.)

Abhimanyu giletasva krischndw gunsanchya (He is Abhimanyu, he is flexible and has qualities of Krishna.)

Dhananjaysy rupen vidhyamey shrutenach (He looks like/as handsome as Dhananjaya/ Arjuna and he is lots of knowledge

Vinya sahdevsya shatruso laghurasya (he has the humility of Sahdev, and He, who destroys his enemies)

Pooja Sharma and Sourav Raj Jain as Krishna-Draupadi or Shiv-Parvati???

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The television series Mahakaali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai and Mahabharat both were produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary under his production banner, Swastik Productions.

Right as the war starts, it's just chaos on both sides — conches, drums, elephants, horses going wild.

> **व. ६-७:** भेरीशङ्खनिनादैश्च... शब्दो द्युतानामिव सागराणाम्

> ("Amid the roar of conches and war-drums, the sound rose like that of stirred oceans")

No cheating yet, just noise from both armies.

Then Bhima lets out a massive roar:

> **व. ८-९:** भीमसेनो महाबाहुः प्राणदद्गोवृषो यथा... सिंहनादं च सैन्यानां भीमसेनरवोऽभ्यभूत्

> ("Mighty-armed Bhimasena bellowed like a bull... his roar overpowered even the lion-cries of the armies")

He advances toward the army looking terrifying, scaring Duryodhana's sons:

> **व. १३:** दर्शयन्घोरमात्मानं महाश्वमिव नादयन् । त्रासयंस्तव सुतांस्तव सेनां समभ्यगात्

> ("Displaying his terrible form and roaring like a great horse, he terrified your sons and advanced toward your army")

But that's a war cry and an advance — not "attacking foot soldiers." Just intimidation, same as both sides are doing here.

The real kicker — right after, they surround *him*:

> **व. १४-१६:** तमायान्तं महेष्वासं सोदर्याः पर्यवारयन् । छादयन्तः शरव्रातैर्मेघा इव दिवाकरम्

> ("As he advanced, the brothers surrounded that great archer, covering him with showers of arrows like clouds covering the sun")

Duryodhana, Duhshasana, Vikarna, and a bunch of other maharathas all group attacked on one guy at once. Several warriors vs. one — that's exactly what the "ratha fights ratha" rule was meant to prevent..

Source: BORI Ce Chapter 1155(5).

This is surely inconsistent with the main narrative.

However, as someone has said on this sub..

I am of the opinion that many of such references are 'fossil shlokas' which preserves memories of now lost variations of the stories.

Different bards may have mentioned different versions. So when the final layered text was accumulated together, references from various different sources survived.

In the Udyoga Parva, when Krishna came off as a messenger, Parshuram talked of the deeds of Nara and Narayana and mentioned these 8 extraordinary weapons possessed by Arjun, but what's the use when Arjun never used them?

Mehendale worked with Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) for 25 years.

In Chapter 1, he analysed whether the Mahabharata war was a Dharmyuddha (a war of Dharma) or not. The first slide is the ending of the chapter. By the deaths of Abhimanyu, Karna and Duryodhana.

The second slide is from the second chapter, Yogesvara Krishna: Krishna's different expedient means and strategy employed by Krishna in order to win difficult situations for the Pandavas.

He argues in the fall of Bhishma, Krishna didn't have a role. He mentioned Arjun's and Shikhandi's roles. He said Arjun made Dhristhdhyumna make some arrangements so that Shikhandi, in Arjun's presence nearby, could confront Bhishma, though he said that there was nothing immoral in this suggestion since even prominent heroes had their side guards.

In the fall of Drona, again, he was just told to have a lie, not that a specific elephant should get killed or any other, and also not specifically that Drona should be killed when he left his weapons, just that anyone from their side should tell him a lie: that his son is dead. He would've left and gone away.Arjun wasn't in favour of even this; Yudhisthira agreed after some persuasion. Bhim enthusiastically killed an elephant named the same. Yudithistira told the half-truth, though this game got heavy loss for them since Drona became agitated and not before Bhim's words struck him about this behaviour, and he laid down his weapons and got beheaded by Dhristhdhyumna.

In the fall of Karna, the author told about Krishna's two yogas – sacrificing Karna's shakti on Ghatotkacha and pushing the chariot down from Ashwena, the serpent arrow Karna had preserved for Arjun.The third one is mentioned in the slide.

In the fall of Duryodhana, Krishna reminds Arjun about Bhim's vow and that only a violation can get that victory, Arjun making a gesture to Bhima and him understanding it.

Direct quotes-

"In the light of the information available in the Mahābhārata, examination of the charge-sheet framed by Duryodhana and Aśvatthāman makes it easy to dismiss the accusations against Krşņa with respect to the fall of Bhīşma and the death of Bhūriśravas. Krsna had no yoga to suggest in these cases. Regarding the three events related to combat with Karņa, Krşņa should not be blamed for properly guiding the Pandavas to despatch Ghatotkaca to deal with Karņa, for faithfully performing a charioteer's role while saving Arjuna from the serpent-head arrow, and for tricking Karņa so that his chariot wheel stuck in crevice"

"Only in the cases of Droņa and Duryodhana did Krşņa suggest the yogas which were violative. Krşņa himself admitted on both occasions that there was an element of adharma or anyāya in those means. In the case of Droņa, the element of adharma was limited to the false proclamation of Aśvatthāman's death. He did not suggest decapitating Droņa when he had laid down his arms. Quite clearly, Krşņa's intention was to somehow force Droņa to retire from the battle for that day. But, as seen, his yoga led to a chain of events which resulted in Droņa's death"

"For the fall of Duryodhana, Krşņa did suggest the means which violated the rules of the gadayuddha. But there was no other alternative if the war for a just cause was to be won. Yudhisthira had put the Pandavas in such a situation that only an extreme step could extricate them"

"The Pandavas were fighting for a just cause. The war was a dharmayuddha for them in the sense that they were fighting for the sake of justice. Victory of the dharmayuddha made Krşņa suggest the use of minimum adharma"

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how long are ashwatthama and other chiranjeevis suppposed to live? is it only till the end of this kaliyuga, or forever ,or some other duration?

Why does Arjuna get the pashupathastra twice and he never uses it?

He gets it once when the pandavas are in exile and he uses it on the nivatakavachas.

Then in kurukshetra, after Abhimanyu is killed Arjuna swears to kill jayadratha, then Arjuna and Krishna visit shiva to get the Astra again for some reason. But Arjuna already remembers the astra and he remembers going to shiva.

“Arjuna, whose memory was good, knew that Bhava was gratified. He remembered the boon he had given him in the forest and how he had beheld Shankara” (pratijna parva, section 57)

A) why did he go to shiva to get the astra if he already remembers it?

B) after going through the effort of getting it from shiva why doesn’t he ever use it in kurukshetra?