'Mahabharat- Different Versions -Perspectives' - Page 6

Originally posted by: srishtisingh

is peter brooks mb also a tv series? I searched in google and the result was a movie.
I would like to variations in ramayana.where I can read them? my knowledge abt ramayana is from sagar serial and home told stories.

Peter Brook's MB is a really long movie or a series with only a few parts.

is it available online? if so plz provide link

found different story of khandavprasth

The ~ 5.5 hour version is on YT

Sorry peeps! I had meant that arjunas wife was suprabha.
The girl karna got with arjunas help was shurtkanti/srutkandi.
@Vrish
Know that story of arjuna+duryodhana vs krishna?
That probably originated from indo. Mb. Pandavas aided by duryodhan going on war with krishna is a part of it.

A Grandmother's Letters

creative work published in tamil in a magazine in 1948:

Sammarjanakesi writes to Saubhagyavati Hidimba Devi:

First Letter

Many blessings to Saubhagyavati Hidimba.

What for did you marry Bhima? I will henceforth not look at your face. I had chosen a groom like Manmatha for you! Does one marry a human? Without a squeak, you have done this in the middle of the night! You have become the one to bring ruin to the family! From now on, do not come the way of my house. Kunti has five sons. She will be prejudiced. I brought you up giving you an oil bath every other day. She will make your stomach go empty. Why did you marry Bhima? What do I care what happens to you! I was hoping to see a child born from your womb. Does one marry out of caste like this? I have rolled appalams, made vadams and gone through so much inconvenience! What for did you marry Bhima! Everything is wasted! From now on do not call me grandmother. I will not come near your house.

Second Letter

Blessings to Saubhagyavati Hidimba.

I saw Pisachavadani yesterday. Your granddaughter is very well-behaved. She is obedient to her mother-in-law, she said. "After all, my granddaughter will be only like me! I have taught her whatever expertise I possess", I told her. Be good. Make sure to pull tightly the upper cloth and cover yourself. If they snigger that you are like this or like that, I will be very ashamed. It seems Dharmaputra praised you. Kunti is a very good person. Large family, poor thing! Be helpful to her. Bhima and Hidimbi are made for each other said someone, I heard it. What am I asking for! If I hear that you are doing well, that is enough, no stigma should come to your grandfather's name. That's all - be good.

Third Letter

All manner of auspicious things should happen to Saubhagyavati Hidimba. Pisachavadani gave me the news. 'Off her food, has morning sickness', she said. Here, I am leaving right away and coming over.

Your dear grandmother.

Aswathama as coming Vyasa

Source: The Vishnu Purana

From Book III, chapter 3.

Parasara (to Maitreya):
In every Dvapara (or third age), Vishnu in the person of Vyasa, in order to promote the good of mankind, divides the Vedas, which is properly but one, into many portions: Observing the limited preseverance, energy, and applications of mortals, he makes the Veda four-fold, to adapt it to their capacities; and the bodily form in which he assumes, in order to effect that classification, is known by the name of Veda Vyasa. Of the different Vyasas in the present Manvantara, and the branches which they have taught, you shall have an account.

Twenty eight times have the Vedas been arranged by the great Rishis in the Vaivasvata Manvantara in the Dvapara age, and consequently eight and twenty Vyasas have passed away; by who, in their respective periods, the Vedas have been divided into four.

In the first Dvapara age, the distribution was made by Svayambhu (Brahma) himself;
in the second, the arranger of the Veda (Veda-Vyasa) was Prajapati (or, Manu);
in the third Usanas,
in the fourth Vrhaspati,
in the fifth Savitri,
in the sixth Mrityu (Death or Yama),
in the seventh Indra,
in the eighth Vasistha,
in the ninth Sarasvata,
in the tenth Tridhaman,
in the eleventh Trivrishan,
in the twelveth Bharadvaja,
in the thirteenth Antariksha,
in the fourteenth Vapra,
in the fifteenth Trayyaruna,
in the sixteenth Dhananjaya,
in the seventeenth Kritanjaya,
in the eighteenth Rina,
in the ninetenth Bharadvaja,
in the twentieth Gotama,
in the twenty first Uttama, lso called Haryatma,
in the twenty second Vena who is like-wise named Rajasravas,
in the twenty third Somasushmapana also called Trinavindu,
in the twenty fourth Riksha, the descendent of Bhrgu, who is also known by the name Valmiki,
in the twenty fifth my father Sakti was Vyasa,
I was the was in the twenty sixth Dvapara,
and was succeeded by Jaratkaru.
The Vyasa of the twenty eighth, who followed him was Krishna Dvaipayana.
These are the twenty eight elder Vyasas by whom, in the preceding Dvapara ages the Veda has been divided into four.
In the next Dvapara, Drauni (son of Drona) will be the Vyasa, when my son Muni Krishna Dvaipayana, who is the actual Vyasa, shall cease to be (in that character).

Since they are modernizing they should considering adopting the PDA btwn Pandav and Panchali in Peter Brook's version 😛

Originally posted by: shyam09

The ~ 5.5 hour version is on YT

Part 1 (3.5 hr) : [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EENh1hxkD6E[/YOUTUBE]

Part 2 (2 hr): [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgBkfNu7k0[/YOUTUBE]

@Vrish: For the part where Karna's chariot gets stuck, it happens at 1 hour, 9 minutes in the second video (part 2)

@Vrish:

WHY indigestible??

ratnakar. a bandit can become valmiki and write ramayana so why not aswatthama?