'Mahabharat- Different Versions -Perspectives' - Page 64

Originally posted by: KrisUdayasankar

Hello all!

Just saying "Hi" since I'm new to the forum, though I've been reading through the very interesting discussions on and off. Look forward to being a part of the exciting debates :)

Krishna

Originally posted by: KrisUdayasankar

Hello all!

Just saying "Hi" since I'm new to the forum, though I've been reading through the very interesting discussions on and off. Look forward to being a part of the exciting debates :)

Krishna

Originally posted by: sayee

Are u the writer of The Aryavrata chronicles...or just a namesake...( just asking)

Originally posted by: bheegi

Welcome to the forum Krishna. I've recently read both your books (Govinda and Kaurava) and looking forward to the third book anxiously.

As some of us have discussed here on this thread, your books give a totally different perspective on this great epic. They are very well written and page turners.

-Sangeeta

Originally posted by: Crazypheonix008

It not just resembles, it near-exactly the same. This is an example of one of the ways in which interpolations were introduced - by replication of existing events, with minor differences in characters involved etc. Pradymna also elopes with Rukmavati (Rukmi's daughter) and the description is pretty similar to the way Krishna elopes with Rukmini (Rukmi's sister).

However, in the AC Govinda is not married at all - a further step from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, who in KrishnaCharitra analyses and concludes that Krishna-Govinda had just one wife.

Another example of this interpolation by replication is the battle between Krishna and Saubha. There is a battle between Pradymna and Saubha's son on exactly the same lines - to the detail that just as Daruka is Govinda's charioteer/lieutenant, Daruka's son is Pradymna's charioteer.

I also have a reason for giving Arjuna a bit of bad press in book 1, but his reputation as a womanizer is pretty well established in MBh. I can't recall the reference offhand, but will post on that again, once i pull it up :)

Thanks so much for enjoying the books :)

Originally posted by: abhijitbasu

Sabhayata and TheWatcher, I was reading your posts with some interest, because you both have articulated informed opinions based on logical perspectives. I, on my part, had also noticed this difference between the KMG translation of Yudhishthira's words and the rendering of the same in my traditional Aryashastra version (as also the Critical Edition). The original Sanskrit shloka is: aayudhaagaaram-aadeepya dagdhvaa caiva purocanam / shat praanino nidhaayehha dravaamoh-anabhilakshitaah // [After burning down this arsenal along with Purochana, and leaving here (the bodies of) six persons, we shall escape unobserved.] This perhaps is one of the rare instances where the otherwise infallible KMG translation has (unwittingly or otherwise), given a different ('non-controversial') twist to the meaning. Perhaps the cavalier view of expendability of aboriginal Nishaadas, so shocking to our modern humanist sensitivities, was due to the 'pre-moral' ethic of the time, also seen in the episodes of Ekalavya and arguably of the Khandava-dahanam. But here it's even more disturbing, as the callous words are uttered by Yudhishthira, the revered epitome of virtue. But at the same time these unadulterated accounts also underline the intellectual honesty of the original narrator in presenting events as they (supposedly) happened, which is the hallmark of a true epic chronicle. The Ramayana too presents one such instance of class persecution -- that of the illustrious Rama beheading the Shudra ascetic Shambuka for violating the enjoined limitations of his class by engaging in tapasyaa. But unlike the Mahabharata event, that episode, appearing as it does in the Uttara-Kanda, could be a later casteist addition.

Originally posted by: KrisUdayasankar

Hello all!

Just saying "Hi" since I'm new to the forum, though I've been reading through the very interesting discussions on and off. Look forward to being a part of the exciting debates :)

Krishna