Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part C

 Source: Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata by Laura Gibbs

Tiny Tales 101-110

-Arjuna joined his brothers after acquiring weapons

-Duryodhana was nervous about this and forms an army

-gandharvas took Duryodhana as prisoner

-Arjuna and Bhima rescued Duryodhana despite his evil plans

-Yudhishtira found his brothers dead at a lake

-Yudhishtira answered the crane's questions at the lake

-the crane revives all his brothers

-the pandavas have to go into disguise

-the pandavas hide their weapons in the forest 

-Bhima promises to protect Draupadi

-Bhima killed Kichaka by squeezing him to death

-Duryodhana was told to make peace with his cousins, he does not listen

Tiny Tales 111-120

-Duryodhana, allied with Susharman, attacks king Virata

-Arjuna comes to fight with Virata

-Arjuna puts the Kauravas to sleep, and enters the palace as Bihannala

-Yudhishthrira asks for half of the kingdom from Duryodhana to avoid war

-Arjuna chose Krishna to fight with him, and Duryodhana got Krishna's army

Tiny Tales 121-150

-Krishna volunteers to speak with Duryodhana

-Duryodhana tries to seize Krishna but couldn't since Krishna was everything (I like that line)

-Krishna could not stop the war

-Krishna watched the kings bathe, and imagined them in the blood of war

-Both sides of the war invited their enemies to fight with them

-the war lasted 18 days

-Arjuna wants to avenge Abhimanyu

-Bhima killed 12 more of Duryodhana's brothers

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