Word: mahabharata
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...high Himalayas, polyandry has the sanction of immemorial legend. According to the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India, Arjuna the Bowman, third of the five sons of King Pandu, won Draupadi, daughter of the King of Panchala, by shooting five swift arrows through a ring hung in midair. But Arjuna's mother Kunti told him, "All things must be shared." So the five Pandu brothers all wed Draupadi and went to live in a grand palace with crystal floors. Last week in Jaunswar Bawar, a region in the northern tip of India, the legend of Arjuna the Bowman...
...Love. Nowadays Vinoba Bhave reads only three books: Euclid's Elements, Aesop's Fables and the Bhagavad Gita. For him, as for Gandhi, the Bhagavad Gita is the supreme book of human guidance. This great Sanskrit poem, imbedded in a larger work called the Mahabharata, is later than the Vedas and the Upanishads, and fills a role in the Hindu holy books something like that of the New Testament in the Bible. During one of his jail terms, Vinoba lectured every Sunday on the Gita. He translated it into Marathi* verse, and this work sold about a quarter...
...race that dwells in Western China is either aborigine or native. To trace the source of Lolo one must study the history of the Indo-Aryan race who moved from Central Asia into Indo-Gangetic plain and then spread abroad. From the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata we know definitely that a large group of people did flee from Hird to the surrounding mountain countries. Further discovery of history is urgently necessary for scholars of atomic...
...reader may thus trace from start to semi-finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much...
...first two of these plays, "The Farewell Curse" and "The Maharani of Arakan", were written by Rabindranath Tagore, while "Savitri" or "Love Conquers Death", the third playlet, is a lyrical drama by K. N. Das Gupta and adapted from the Hindu epic "The Mahabharata". These three plays combine into one program, the tragedy, comedy, epic, and idealism...