Comments | mahabarata: Adi parva, sections 5-7

bop_radar in mahabarata

Adi parva, sections 5-7

Jan 16, 2006 20:24

The story of Puloma, a demon, and Bhrigu's curse on Agni, the god of fire, who appears to be a complete fraidy cat.

SummarySaunaka (head holy guy) turns up and, having missed Sauti (our narrator)’s impressive start, expresses some doubt as to whether Sauti knows as much as his dad did. Saunaka challenges Sauti to tell the story of the Bhrigu race ( Read more... )

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tekalynn January 16 2006, 22:50:29 UTC

Her epithet is "slender waisted" even though she's pregnant. Hmm.

bop_radar January 17 2006, 02:02:54 UTC

Hm! Yes. Heavily pregnant too, evidently, since the bub pops out soon after her abduction.

labingi March 16 2006, 04:53:05 UTC

I just joined this community. I'm so glad you started it. Your narration is hilarious (and informative). When you're done reading the whole thing, you could publish a skeleton key to the Mahabharata, like Joseph Campbell did for Finnegan's Wake. I'd buy it!

bop_radar March 16 2006, 04:57:38 UTC

Heh! Glad to have someone else on board... we have rather neglected it of late. I must poke supacat and get posting again! ;-) It is much fun (in a masochist way).