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Uh, Zulus are in mainland South Africa. Madagascar is an island off Africa, and probably still was at the time. Duryodhan would have gotten the entire island to himself, and after the exile, the Pandavas could have simply returned to Indraprastha and resumed ruling.

Originally posted by: CapeBuffalo

There are communities which regard Balarama as the God of Agriculture and Krishna as the God of Animal Husbandry. Both go hand in hand. Hence Balarama with plough and Krishna with butter.

In war I guess he generally fought with bow/arrows and in close combat with mace.

Ha ha!! Had he floated if off to Madagascar then no MB war in India. Maybe Duryodhan would fought with the Zulus with Rhinos pulling the Zulu chariots😊

I have a question:

I know this is the order of the births:

Karna, Yuddhistir, Bheem, Dhuryodhan, Krishna, Arjun, Nakul and Sahadev.

My question is: Where do Balram, Dushasan, (the other sons) and Dushala fit into this?

Thanks :)

ALSO if anyone knows how Devki and Vasudev's marriage fits into the time frame with Gandhari's marriage, etc.

We once addressed this in DBSK. Balarama would probably be around equal to Yudisthir, or at least older to Bhima. And younger to Karna. Krishna was b/w Bhima & Arjun.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

We once addressed this in DBSK. Balarama would probably be around equal to Yudisthir, or at least older to Bhima. And younger to Karna. Krishna was b/w Bhima & Arjun.

Duryodhan & Bhima shared the birthday, & probably time - there is no clear mention of who b/w these 2 were older. B/w Duryodhan & Dushashan, Dhritarashtra's (not Gandhari's) maid gave birth to Yuyutsu. Then came Duhsasana & all the rest.

I think Duhsala was the youngest.

Vasudev & Devaki would probably have married after Kunti did. Since Pandu's marriage happened after Dhritarashtra's, so Devaki's marriage would have happened some time after Gandhari's. But it's unclear whether Vasudev would have been completely unmarried b4 Kunti got married.

OK so it would be:

1) Karna

2) Yuddhistir

3) Balram (I put Balram younger purely because Bheem, because there are a few people before Krishna)

4) Bheem (I did read somewhere that Bheem was one day elder than Dhuryodhan, but lets just say they're equal).

5) Yuyutsu (Older or Younger than Arjun?/Krishna?)

6) Krishna

7) Arjun

8) Dushasan + 98 brothers?

9) Nakul and Sahadev

10) Dushala?

11) Many many years later Subhadra.

I am a bit unsure about Devki and Vasudev marrying after Pandu, etc.

Gandhari was pregnant for 2 years, however if Balram (7th child) of Devki Vasudev is equivalent to first child of the Kurus, I assume they would have married much earlier than Pandu/Kunti/Madri and Dhiritashtra/Gandhari?

Originally posted by: Manojie

OK so it would be:

1) Karna

2) Yuddhistir

3) Balram (I put Balram younger purely because Bheem, because there are a few people before Krishna)

4) Bheem (I did read somewhere that Bheem was one day elder than Dhuryodhan, but lets just say they're equal).

5) Yuyutsu (Older or Younger than Arjun?/Krishna?)

6) Krishna

7) Arjun

8) Dushasan + 98 brothers?

9) Nakul and Sahadev

10) Dushala?

11) Many many years later Subhadra.

Where?

Bheem & all children of Dhridrashtra are of almost same age..

Bheem - Dury: same day but no clarity of time difference..

followed by Yuyutsu, Dushasan, other 9 &, Dushala within a month.. the list of boys in the order is available in the text.. we don't know whether Dushala is youngest of all coz she is not a part of the list..