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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: SayaneeH.Lecter


n here I was thinking the marbles are for some kindda hit the target game with slingshot n marble stones where u get only 5 chances to hit!! or may be for brain-vita game!!!

😆😆 Good one.. 😆 Is David/Goliath involved ?
I used to like brain-vita but could never master the art of finishing game with lone marble in the middle. As I remember. I always had 5 marbles standing in separate corners avoiding each other like truculent children. I missed divine intervention, magic of 5, till you pointed out..😆.
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

well i think the role of 5 stones is over now since they are now in the thing pandavas put on Draupadi's head

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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: SayaneeH.Lecter


emm u r right.. one should never take anything for granted when its come too cat fight that too over karna .. shii Sinde should have arrange Karna's swamvaar ssn whatever in StarBharat n ask for an audition to be his bride .. show wahi twist nayi 😃


Greatt idea Sayanee👏

So cotty next update on Karna's Swayamvadhu competition 😆😉

what say?😉

we all Karnalis are ready😃


P.S:- I have no doubt there will be a huge cat fight between Sayanee and I 😆😉 because yeh sawamvadhu competion toh India forums ke do kanya e jit sakti hain ek IF Dazzler Panchaali aur ek Goldie SayaneeH.Lector 😉😆
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

well i think the role of 5 stones is over now since they are now in the thing pandavas put on Draupadi's head



The blue stones in Draupadi's chudamani? 😲 😆
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Posted: 11 years ago
CHAPTER ELEVEN
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My dear fans, I am Sahadev!! I know I cracked a joke at the start, by calling you my fans.Infact, I very well know you are wondering who the hell Sahadev is. But good author always starts with a hearty laugh. OK. Let me start again.

I am Sahadev, the youngest brother of mighty Yudhisthira, Bheema and Arjuna. I can see your frowns slowly dissolve and smile of sympathetic recognition appear on your face. Dont worry.No need to feel embarassed. I am very well used to it.

Always in the shadows of my mighty, popular brothers, invisible to the world. Arjuna had to learn for years to master Antardhan astra but I and my brother, Nakul were born with it. Yes, Nakul and I were in the same boat.

Pitamaha Bheeshma, Aachaarya Dron who could remember thousands of celestial chants with ease, who could memorize name of every kuru prince,his wives and children, always struggled to remember our names and birthday. I could sense no respect for us in our extended family.

Evil Duryodhana who had an axe to grind with my 3 elder brothers was insultingly friendly and sympathetic to both of us. Our sworn enemy, who used to take offense even at simple, innocent laugh of Arjuna would shrug off humorously harshest insults hurled by us.

Jyeshta pitashri, tatashri Vidur, maata Gandhari, Dusshala, even guards at the gate did not take us seriously.

A tipping point was when Purochan forgot to build separate chambers for both of us at Varnavart and we had to sleep in a common hall on sofa. We wept uncontrollably in solitude. Well, Purochan got what he deserved in the end, but I digress.

I overheard Guru Vyaasa telling maata Kunti that I am incarnation of intelligent but pompous Shukracharya, Guru of Rakshasas. Shukracharya was a big showoff and apparently was cursed to a torturing life into oblivion in my birth, concluded Vyaasa with a smug look on his face.

Our mother Kunti used to tell us stories of Ramaayan. My elder brothers loved Ram and Laxman. I instead loved Shatrughna, a shadow of shadow Bharat... Shatrughna, whose barring Lavanaasura, only other pronounced claim to fame was his ignominious defeat at the hands of kids Luv and Kush. I always felt that I and Shatrughna could be great friends. We could understand each other.

Our mother died at very young age and since then Kunti was our mother. All my brothers loved me dearly. They took great care of me and I led a sheltered, pampered life, relying on my brothers.

At Gurukul, I passed archery test with the help of Arjun who would shoot the target secretly for me from behind. In one to one combat with Kuru princes, Bheema would put scare in them and force them to throw matches in my favour .

I and Nakul, both chose sword, the most unpopular weapon, for our graduation. As no one else bothered to learn, we were declared expert in our group. At Rangbhoomi, we had even bribed the warriors who were to mock-fight with us but at the last moment bhrata Duryodhana decided to flex his muscles.

I am ashamed to say but I suffered such a humiliating defeat at Duryodhana's hands that my mother passed out with grief and after-shock. She later on covered up by saying that she got anxious due to Karna, Arjuna fight.
When I came to know Shakuni mama was a mastermind behind Rangbhoomi debacle, I took an oath then and there to kill him one day.

We were told that we are God's sons. When we were kids, our father came to see us occasionally.

Bhrata Yudhisthira's father Yama was very serious, tall and massive like Himalaya. I was scared of him and used to hide behind Bheema not letting him see me. He would take Yudhisthira for a ride on his mighty buffalo and discuss fond memories of Nachiketa, his favorite student.

Vaayudev was very nimble, supple and funny. He would take Bheema in his arms and lift him off the ground. Little Bheema would clap and laugh loudly. Vaayudeva would transform into a twister and collect fruits of the forest for us.

Arjun was the luckiest.He would cry for beautiful Airaavat to go on sky-ride and Vajra to play Gilli-Danda. Indra dev would smile and oblige. Arjun was very popular with Apsaraas. They would play hide and seek with him, plant violent kisses on his cherubic face till it was violet red.

Aswinikumars were very nice,respectful and amiable. They used to bring herbal facial packs for Nakul and Poorvabhas booster tonic for me. You may have noticed, we avoided calling them father. Frankly, I was not sure who was exactly my biological father of the two. It did not matter anyway as they were identical twins. We were unsure to address them as father or uncle and instead settled on 'Sir'.

They seemed to be content with this arrangement. I do not know much about them except that they are doctors and are beaten on several occasions by Yama for finding cures to deadly diseases, saving lives on earth and thus upsetting Yamaraja's plan of expanding his business on earth.

The whole rumour mill of my poorvabhaas started when I was still in GuruKul. Our Guru-mother, Kripi while very kind mother, was not bestowed with cooking skills.
Guru Kripacharya always felt apologetic for failing to disclose his sister's major shortcomings in culinary skills,to Aachaarya prior to marriage. It was a grave sin as bachelor brahmin typically married for tasty food.

Gurudev was never upset with Virat Naresh over any silly kingdom. Drupad was ready to give his half anytime. But Aachaarya, enchanted by tasty dishes at Drupad's palace, asked for his favorite chef in Bheeksha.This was highly indigestible to Drupad, used to sumptuous food. He yelled, refused and hence the war.

All historians go agog over the Kartikeya war for Kaamdhenu but Druapad's favorite chef remains largely unnoticed.

Anyway, I always suffered indigestion, stomach aches and cramps due to unpalatable meal.
My uneasiness due to indigestion coincided with Duryodhana's evil schemes to trouble us and soon my bros believed that I get ominous signs of sickness prior to impending doom. Thus started rumour of my exaggerated capabilities in Poorvabhaas.

Guru Drona also came to know about my Poorvabhas prowess and consulted me occasionally after skirmish with maata Kripi. It was surprising that Aacharya who was skilled in celestial Varunastra had no idea how to counter Varunastra from maata Kripi's eyes.

I used my common sense and under guile of poorvabhas, suggested him to present his wife delicate flowers and utter most romantic potent mantra consisting of 3 words which was bound to make her happy. The trick worked each time and Gurudev relied on my poorvabhaas even more and went easy on me during tests.

I slowly perfected my Poorvabhaas technique to such an expert level that I invariably started to get ominous signs, a couple of days after the dreaded event has taken place.

Anyway I stop here before your current poorvabaas of boredom is fully realised. But I will be back soon. ciao.
Edited by Cotswolds - 11 years ago
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: ...Diala...



The blue stones in Draupadi's chudamani? 😲 😆

Yup.. The tiara that Draupadi was wearing. I also noticed it only after Sabhayata pointed out. Nice one Sabhayata. 😆
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Posted: 11 years ago
Dear Maharaj Sahadev (brothers of an emperor too were addressed as a king, not as Rajkumar)

Since both Nasatya and Dasra were consummating 'husbands' of your mom Madri, I have news for you: both of them would be your 'father' - neither would be your uncle. Legally, however, it's just Pandu.

To use a better example, you'd be the father of all of your wife Draupadi's sons, not just Shrutasena. So would your other 4 brothers be. None of you would be 'Taatshri' or 'Kakashri' to any of them.

I thought that evil Duryodhan hated all 5 of you, not just your jesth mata's sons. Incidentally, was his relationship w/ you the reason why he approached your Mamashri Shalya, while not making a similar attempt to get Mamashri Purujit & Matamaha Kuntibhoj to defect to the Kaurava side?

For the house of lac, I'd consider you lucky: since that house was burnt down, you & Nakul had the least to lose, so it's just as well that you had a shared room. Greatest loss must have been your Mata Kunti's. Incidentally, I always knew you to be her fav son, but in this serial, it's Arjun who is. What exactly did he do to you to make you lose the one of 2 things that made you stand out (the other being killing Shakuni)?

Incidentally, do you recall your mom & Kunti having any spats? How did pitashree handle it? In fact, since you're the most intelligent, how much do you remember them? How was your mom w/ your older 3 brothers? She claimed b4 she died that she couldn't be fair to them. Did you notice that to be evident at all, or did she just want to escape and dump your upbringing on to Kunti?

Oh, the other question I had - given that you were a swordsman, how did you end up w/ such muscles that even your jesht Bhima doesn't have? Is your sword, or ax that heavy? In fact, which is it - I read that swords were your & Nakul's weapon of choice, but when you fought Duryodhan @ Rangbhoomi, you used an ax. Maybe you should have gone to Parashurama instead of Drona, then you could have defeated him. I never read about Drona being good w/ axes.

But back to your muscles - again, how did you get them when you could hardly eat, since Bhima was always eating up half the entire Pandava meal? Also, did you eat w/ him, or did you wait until he was done, so that you could eat in peace?

One last question for now - when the lake incident took place & a voice asked you not to drink b4 answering his questions, why didn't you? For someone as intelligent as you, that should have been as easy as drinking water - even water from that lake. Had you done that, none of the others would have 'died'.

I'll let you go now, but will have more questions later.
Edited by .Vrish. - 11 years ago
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Posted: 11 years ago
@Cotswolds:My sister is sleeping i have to muffle my laughter in order to not wake her up .Is proving to be very difficult.
Hardest was in these parts
A tipping point was when Purochan forgot to build separate chambers for both of us at Varnavart and we had to sleep in a common hall on sofa. We wept uncontrollably in solitude. Well, Purochan got what he deserved in the end, but I digress.

Shatrughna, whose barring Lavanaasura, only other pronounced claim to fame was his ignominious defeat at the hands of kids Luv and Kush. I always felt that I and Shatrughna could be great friends. We could understand each other.

and Nakul, both chose sword, the most unpopular weapon, for our graduation. As no one else bothered to learn, we were declared expert in our group.
Aswinikumars were very nice,respectful and amiable. They used to bring herbal facial packs for Nakul and Poorvabhas booster tonic for me. You may have noticed, we avoided calling them father. Frankly, I was not sure who was exactly my biological father of the two. It did not matter anyway as they were identical twins. We were unsure to address them as father or uncle and instead settled on 'Sir'
vrish:Good questions looking forward to answers
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Dear Maharaj Sahadev (brothers of an emperor too were addressed as a king, not as Rajkumar)

Since both Nasatya and Dasra were consummating 'husbands' of your mom Madri, I have news for you: both of them would be your 'father' - neither would be your uncle. Legally, however, it's just Pandu.

To use a better example, you'd be the father of all of your wife Draupadi's sons, not just Shrutasena. So would your other 4 brothers be. None of you would be 'Taatshri' or 'Kakashri' to any of them.

I thought that evil Duryodhan hated all 5 of you, not just your jesth mata's sons. Incidentally, was his relationship w/ you the reason why he approached your Mamashri Shalya, while not making a similar attempt to get Mamashri Purujit & Matamaha Kuntibhoj to defect to the Kaurava side?

This is interesting.. I dont know kuntibhoj and purujit. My knowledge is limited to brc and pardon my harmones, but i only remember beautiful dancers seducing shalya in the episode.

For the house of lac, I'd consider you lucky: since that house was burnt down, you & Nakul had the least to lose, so it's just as well that you had a shared room. Greatest loss must have been your Mata Kunti's. Incidentally, I always knew you to be her fav son, but in this serial, it's Arjun who is. What exactly did he do to you to make you lose the one of 2 things that made you stand out (the other being killing Shakuni)?
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Valid point. Shinde of Starbharat does not know either. Currently he is busy trying to book Yeravda prison for next week to throw pandavas in dungeon.


Incidentally, do you recall your mom & Kunti having any spats? How did pitashree handle it? In fact, since you're the most intelligent, how much do you remember them? How was your mom w/ your older 3 brothers? She claimed b4 she died that she couldn't be fair to them. Did you notice that to be evident at all, or did she just want to escape and dump your upbringing on to Kunti?

This is interesting. Please throw some more light on this. If it is already discussed in some other thread, I would be obliged if you can refer me to it.

Oh, the other question I had - given that you were a swordsman, how did you end up w/ such muscles that even your jesht Bhima doesn't have? Is your sword, or ax that heavy? In fact, which is it - I read that swords were your & Nakul's weapon of choice, but when you fought Duryodhan @ Rangbhoomi, you used an ax. Maybe you should have gone to Parashurama instead of Drona, then you could have defeated him. I never read about Drona being good w/ axes.😆

But back to your muscles - again, how did you get them when you could hardly eat, since Bhima was always eating up half the entire Pandava meal? Also, did you eat w/ him, or did you wait until he was done, so that you could eat in peace? 😆

One last question for now - when the lake incident took place & a voice asked you not to drink b4 answering his questions, why didn't you? For someone as intelligent as you, that should have been as easy as drinking water - even water from that lake. Had you done that, none of the others would have 'died'.

This seems to be nice os topic. 😊I skipped yaksha prashna as it was philosophical except that yudhi asked for sahadev's life back to be fair to madri.

I'll let you go now, but will have more questions later.

Sahdev is already very scared to field volley of questions and claims he has nothing to do with kurus and pandavas.



Vrish its always a pleasure to get insights from you. Thanks for the pointers. I do plan to write more thru sahadev's pov and they will come handy. Infact, you have given me some good ideas for os.

By the way, sahadev has written this autobiography at very advanced age and was afflicted with alzheimer. This coupled with translation errors over generations are bound to introduce factual errors and inconsistencies in this post. 😊

I have a question though.. Nakul, sahadev are fraternal twins, born from 2 separate sperms. So it is difficult to know if father is nasatya or dasra without dna. So as per 21 st century, it is difficult to know real father.

Also strictly from os point of view, sahadev who is confused about his father, grappling with identity issues is more alluring. 😆
Edited by Cotswolds - 11 years ago
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Posted: 11 years ago
Valid point. Shinde of Starbharat does not know either. Currently he is busy trying to book Yeravda prison for next week to throw pandavas in dungeon.


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