Mahabharat Retelecast Discussion Thread 5 - Page 29

Originally posted by: Mages

rohit research and during his live with arpit he mention that 7 million people died in kurukshetra war😲 and he also mention about bramhastra being released not sure though becos the network was not clear from their side

The royal sage Dhritarashtra, however, restraining the grief that arises from folly, enquired of Yudhishthira the just, saying, ‘If, O son of Pandu, thou knowest it, tell me the number of those that have fallen in this battle, as also of those that have escaped with life!’

"Yudhishthira answered, ‘One billion 660 million and 20,000 men have fallen in this battle. Of the heroes that have escaped, the number is 240,165.

The Mahabharata

Book 11: Stri Parva

Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr.

[1883-1896]

Originally posted by: Mages

I wanted to.watch radha krishna but everyone told me it is distorted thus i drop the idea and noone can beatbthe aura of srj as lord krishna

if u can post the promo

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Yudi v/s bheesam🤣

In starbharat when Yudi was moving towards Hastinapur & bheesam stops him , Yudi says I m not going 2 attack Hastinapur in return bheesam says to kya kurukshetra ka tyaag karke teertyatra pe ja rhe ho putra🤣🤣

Originally posted by: Wistfulness

It was much greater than that.

The royal sage Dhritarashtra, however, restraining the grief that arises from folly, enquired of Yudhishthira the just, saying, ‘If, O son of Pandu, thou knowest it, tell me the number of those that have fallen in this battle, as also of those that have escaped with life!’

"Yudhishthira answered, ‘One billion 660 million and 20,000 men have fallen in this battle. Of the heroes that have escaped, the number is 240,165.

The Mahabharata

Book 11: Stri Parva

Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr.

[1883-1896]

I think this number this wrong and highly exaggerated or is somehow wrongly translated just like 33 koti became 33 crores.

When it has been stated multiple times that the total army was 18 akshauni. They have(Adi Parva) given the breakup of 18 akshauni and that corresponds to nearly 4 million people.

How can the number of people killed due to the war be 40 times the number of people who participated in war?

Aside even today the total population of India is nearly 1 billion 400 million, can we actually imagine that only the young male population 3000 years back was so more than this?

This number can no where be even near true if Mahabharata is Itihas

Originally posted by: deepikagupta9

🤣🤣

Yudi v/s bheesam🤣

In starbharat when Yudi was moving towards Hastinapur & bheesam stops him , Yudi says I m not going 2 attack Hastinapur in return bheesam says to kya kurukshetra ka tyaag karke teertyatra pe ja rhe ho putra🤣🤣

Ha ha🤣

Originally posted by: Mages

rohit research and during his live with arpit he mention that 7 million people died in kurukshetra war😲 and he also mention about bramhastra being released not sure though becos the network was not clear from their side

What research? I guess he said it from the shows inputs itself

As per the historians the population of India around 1000 BC was around 6 million, although this number need not be completely accurate but it can't be more than double of it.

Considering that only males participated in the war, there were many who didn't and not everyone died, the death of 7 million people seems improbable to me

Originally posted by: deepikagupta9

When satyaki can participate in war from pandavas side , krishna himself was in pandavas side 2 why did Pradyumna dint participated in war , he was pandav pro , arjun was his guru & he was close to arjun , he was trainer of Abhimanyu & upandavas. Pradyumna was awesome warrior

Pradyumna was there in Kurukshetra if I recall correctly, he was involved in strategy meetings etc.

He couldn't however be a soldier in the war because Krishna had clearly stated that his clan would have fighting soldiers from Kaurav side

Satyaki wasn't from Krishna's clan, he wasn't bound to follow the rules of Krishna's clan, Pradyumna however was bound to it

Originally posted by: Wistfulness

Just the promo. I'd like to know if others felt the same after watching that disastrous Geeta saar. 😳

What did you feel after watching it

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

I think this number this wrong and highly exaggerated or is somehow wrongly translated just like 33 koti became 33 crores.

When it has been stated multiple times that the total army was 18 akshauni. They have(Adi Parva) given the breakup of 18 akshauni and that corresponds to nearly 4 million people.

How can the number of people killed due to the war be 40 times the number of people who participated in war?

Aside even today the total population of India is nearly 1 billion 400 million, can we actually imagine that only the young male population 3000 years back was so more than this?

This number can no where be even near true if Mahabharata is Itihas

We know the key survivors but it's difficult to figure out how many soldiers and animals survived since not much is available in that domain.

Using the 40x exaggeration, no. of survivors boils down to 6000. Interesting topic for discussion.

Originally posted by: Wistfulness

Did you guys watch the Geeta Saar promo of that RadhaKrishn serial? 😳

No