Originally posted by: chillirocks
well mahabharat is a long legend.it proves that truth alone triumphs.
it is about a war between the pandavs and kauravs.pandavs r 5 bros-yudhistir,bhim,arjun,nakul and sahdev.
they r god gifted children.among the five bros arjun is the most brilliant.he is an excellent archer.pandu is their father and kunti is their mom.
pandu has an elder bro,dhritarastra.his wife is gandhari.as dhritarastra is blind,gandhari too closes her eyes with a piece of cloth so as to remain loyal to her hubby.they have 100 son.duryodhan,dushasan,vikaran etc.
as dhritarastra is blind,bhishma(his uncle)places pandu on the throne.but he dies and then they place dhritarastra on the throne.but now the question arise that after dhritarastra who shall rule,duryodhan or yudhistir?
gandhari's bro shakuni comes to hastinapur,the capital of pandavs and kauravs and instigates duryodhan against his cousins.duryodhan plans to burn the pandavs alive but they r saved by the grace of lord krishna.then they escape and then arjun wins draupadi's hand in her swayamvar.but according to the wish of their mother kunti,the 5 bros marry draupadi.then they return to hastinapur and ask for their share.the evil dhritarastra give them a barren land ,indraprasta(now delhi).but with help of krishna they make it beautiful city.arjun gets married to the beautiful subhadra(krishna's sis)and a son is born to them.draupadi too gives birth 5 sons(one from each husband)
duryodhan is jelous of pandavs again.he makes them gamble and insults them.his bro dushashan tries to disrobe draupadi but lord krishna saves her.the pandavs r exiled for 12 years and they spend the 13th year in incognito.
after that they ask duryodhan for their kingdom but that rascal refuse to do so.then lord krishna declares a war and then the pandavs destroys the karavs and live happily ever after.this very very brief story.the actual story is very vast.it was compiled by maharishi vyas.it is very interesting.someone had asked me to give the story so i wrote it.sorry for any mistake