OS - Being Shakuni (pg 142) Duryodhana's killing (pg 139) - Page 24

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?

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.

Originally posted by: Cotswolds

Reporter Vijay from daily Bhaskar earlier gave you a sensational news that Shinde has booked Yeravada jail for Pandavas and waiting for Dhritrashtar orders.

Nakul and Sahadev are big fans of Sanjay Dutt and insisted on a cell next to him. Meanwhile, shrewd Vidur has employed Sanjay Dutt's lawyers and is hopeful that he can get Pandavas on parole citing Draupadi's ill health.

Rajvaidya has already submitted detiailed medical report of Rajkumari Draupadi's Naadi Pareekshan.

Originally posted by: Cotswolds

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.

Fraternal twins means 2 separate eggs. Madri had to have had that in order to produce twins, otherwise only one - Nasatya OR Dasra - could have had her son, but not both. But there is no guarantee that Nasatya's son only was Nakul - it could have been Sahadev. Or not.

Maybe it's just as well that unlike Suryadev, Indra and Yamaraj, Nasatya & Dasra made no attempts ever to meet Nakul or Sahadev.

Also strictly from os point of view, sahadev who is confused about his father, grappling with identity issues is more alluring. 😆

The best identity issue would be Karna's. Yesterday, I was wondering about QUEEN's description of him coming back from death for 15 days to offer food to his ancestors. But who would his ancestors be? Choices:

• Suryadev?
• Kunti - Shurasena - Yadu - Yayati - Budh - Chandra?
• Kunti - Kuntibhoj - Druyhu - Yayati - Budh - Chandra?
• Pandu - Puru - Yayati - Budh - Chandra?
• Adirath - ...?

So like 5 Pandava 'brothers', Karna would have had 5 identity paths where he'd have had to offer his oblations 😆

Originally posted by: Cotswolds

My dear fans, I am Sahadev!! I know I cracked a joke at the start, by calling you my fans.

I remember Panchaali saying she was Sahadev's fan 😳

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.

Include Vyas, mostly he wraps them up as 'twins' without wasting Ganesha's time/ink/leaf in writing 'Nakula & Sahadeva'

Our sworn enemy, who used to take offense even at simple, innocent laugh of Arjuna would shrug off humorously harshest insults hurled by us.

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.

At Gurukul, I passed archery test with the help of Arjun who would shoot the target secretly for me from behind.

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.

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'.

Originally posted by: ...Diala...

Vrish:

If you are not kidding about Karna's identity 😉

Per that story Karna says he did not know who his ancestors were and so he dint perform his duties to them, Isn't this absolutely false? He had no doubts about his ancestors until the secret was revealed.. So I believe it will be Adirath's ancestors and Karna would have been done with his oblations when he was alive.