Some excerpts from articles chosen at random:
Views on Mahabharat and the exploration of it:
Mahabharata Text and textuality
Can Mahabharata be really called a story' or narrative'? Or, can Mahabharata be really Retold as a story' or narrative'? Mahabharata is History, and also a historic
and historical Text. The name Itihasa-Purana' and Pancham-Veda' is attested by Chhandogya Upanishad (900 B.C at the latest, and which also mentions Devaki-Putra Krishna as a historical character),
and as Itihaasa-Veda' in Kautilya's Arthashashtra (400-300 B.C). Reference to Mahabharata is found directly in Asvalayana Grihya Sutra and indirectly in Satapath Brahmana, Atharva Veda, Manu-
samhita, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Bankim chandra in his Krishna Charitra' (1st Khanda 7th Parichhed) refers to Panini's Astadhayi to show that the name Mahabharata' was in existence before
Panini (600 B.C)
1) Fall of Draupadi and the Pandavas: Upanishadic Significance :
Mahaprasthanika Parva is not Vyasa's creation. It was added later.
The poet who created the Mahaprasthanika Parva was no mean poet. Lesser than Vyasa, yet second to no other, he never could have wasted a single word without any deep and significant purpose.
When it comes to the narrative of the last journey of the Pandavas and Draupadi, he is perhaps at his best, connecting the fifth veda' with the Upanishadic philosophy, all the while remaining true to
Vyasa's spirit and the Rig Vedic tradition
2) Mahabharata: Draupadi, Body Language, Eyes, and Vyasa's Poetry : Body Language as we all know (though not always being aware) is the chief mode of
communication between two Human Beings. In a verbal language dependant (Centric) World, this might seem strange, but this is not my claim. Our own firsthand experience confirms the importance of
Nonverbal Communication, and Empirical researches have found that Nonverbal communication represents two-thirds of all communication. [1] Nonverbal Communication is mostly in the form of Body
Signals through Signs like facial and physical features, gestures (conscious and unconscious) and negotiation/manipulation of personal space. [2] Any person any time actually uses all five senses in an
interaction, though one is not aware of it - and the dominant Sense Organ is of course the Eye constituting 83% of the interaction, while the other Sense Organs have their shares roughly as: 11% hearing,
3% smell, 2% touch and 1% taste. [3] This hierarchy of Sense Organs show that we Human Beings live in Constructed Reality rather than True Reality. Actually all Sense Organs are a symbiotic
network and it is our Mind that unifies them (read for example, the allegorical narrative of quarrel of senses' in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad and Mahabharata. With this approach, I made a quick search
in Mahabharata (as much permitted by my mediocre grey matter, and Eye), and as usual I find that Vyasa's presentation of and message on Body Language are concentrated all around Draupadi! I am
no more shocked or surprised at such findings because I have long settled it that Vyasa actually wrote Mahabharata with Draupadi as the Centre
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Edited by Maverick_me - 10 years ago
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