What was that ???? Is chanakya really dead ????

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Surbhi,

How can you be so gullible?😉

Of course he is not dead. As I had written on the episode 173 thread, I agreed with Inlieu's guess that the mud coating would (in defiance of the laws of physics and of the thermal properties of materials, in this case the human skin, but when have such minor issues😉 bothered our CVs?) protect him from the scorching heat.

This is exactly what has happened. In fact, I had thought that Chanakya might not look dead at all, and might emerge from the bull undamaged. But that was an illogical guess of mine, for in that case, Alexander would simply have killed him by more conventional methods.

So he had to appear to be really dead, and that is what has happened. They clearly do not check to see if he is breathing or not, for they are sure he is dead

He will regain consciousness after a while. The very lucky thing for him is that Alexander is actually going to ship him across to Porus. He will be in Paurav Rashtra, special delivery courtesy Alexander😆, when he comes to himself again.

Neat!!!

Shyamala Di

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My little Manasi,

What a piece of luck for me that you turned up! I doubt if anyone else here would have relished that joke, or even spotted it as a joke! This is why, though I post here from time to time for the sake of practice, I miss my girls so badly. And my posts are mostly wasted in this micro forum.

Thanks a lot, my pet!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: EtherealRati

Throughout the episode ( in takshilla sequence )...i was thinking chanakya will escape...but they showed the dead body at end and it resembled chanakya only...so no interchange took place here...sooo is chanakya really dead ????? or that mitti has something to do with it and he is faking being dead.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Well, if she was really the way you described her courtesy the Alexander Romance and Massimo's book, no wonder she smiled😡. So did Olympias at the end. Monster No.1 and Monster No. 2.

Alexander looked petrified for a moment before he lit the fire - so much so that I thought he was going to have a change of heart and abandon the whole thing - and he never smiled. Small mercies.

However, the whole shebang, with the trio of Alexander, Olympias and Roxanne sitting there as if they were at a theatre performance, to watch a man being roasted to death was horrible and disgusting. 😡😡😡

Yes, Alexander would have been fully justified in killing Chanakya, for after all Chanakya had tried to get him killed by deceit. But there was NO need for this ugly display of sadism.

As I noted above, Chanakya will now get back to Paurav Rashtra express delivery courtesy Alexander😉😉. But the mystery of the potli of extra mud remains unsolved.

Shyamala Aunty