Extra Credit Reading Notes, Mahabarata: B

Indian Myth and Legend , Donald Mackenzie
The House of Fire

This story is really interesting. One question that came to my thought was whether or not the woman and her five sons were good people or not. Was there divine power at play when the wind blew the fire to the lac house to burn them in place of the Queen and her sons? And of course, the prince and Kind Dhiratarashtra weren't sad about it, but if they came up with all of that, how could they not have even an inkling of suspicion that those remains wasn't of that of the true Queen and Princes.

This story reminds me of the story Of Jesus in Islam (a little bit of a reach, but it still came to my thought while reading this). The story goes that when Jesus was put on the cross, Allah put his face on another man, so that the man who died on the cross was only thought to be Jesus.



Birth of Draupadi
I didn't know that draupadi had a brother. From the way it sounds, Drona might have a plan to get rid of her brother. The story says the son is destined to destroy Drona.

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