Kangana thinks The Avengers was inspired by Mahabrat - Page 6

Originally posted by: HearMeRoar

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Of course you are 🤣

Yeh sab kia hogaya thread mei 🤓🤣

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Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

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Damn, the comments in this thread.

Originally posted by: Gul_9

Anyone got book recommendations for Mahabharata in English? Basically I'm asking for the most authentic translation. Thanks in advance!

Ramesh Menon's Mahabhara :A Modern Rendering is one of the most entertaining versions, that I've read. It is fast paced and reads like a fantasy. The author has succeeded in filling out characters' motivations .The slight rivalry between Kunti and Madri for example. He also pared out a lot of sub-stories. The descriptions are wonderful and the philosophical discussions are comprehensible without dithering on and on. The characters retain their original selves. No Karna-Draupadi romance or Krishna-Draupadi romance. It is available for free on Kindle Unlimited as well.

For a more comprehensive version, Ramesh Menon has a 10 volume version.

Originally posted by: HearMeRoar

Does she realize other cultures also have similar stories dating back to Iron Age?😆

Greek, Roman, Nordic, Celtic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Native American, Chinese, (other) African... the list goes on.

Every time she opens her mouth, a few brain cells seem to fall out.

I'm a proud Indian and it's vast mythological literature. Especially Mahabharat. Humans developed their own Gods and Mythology as they progressed as a race.Mythology is a mixture of facts known at that time mixed with some facts which are known but not understood and some things which were just conjectures.

Spinning these myths is human nature.So it's very much possible to have some similarities because all these came out of human understanding and the way human brains function.

So people should stop believing that one community is more superior when compared with others.

Originally posted by: capricornrcks

Ramesh Menon's Mahabhara :A Modern Rendering is one of the most entertaining versions, that I've read. It is fast paced and reads like a fantasy. The author has succeeded in filling out characters' motivations .The slight rivalry between Kunti and Madri for example. He also pared out a lot of sub-stories. The descriptions are wonderful and the philosophical discussions are comprehensible without dithering on and on. The characters retain their original selves. No Karna-Draupadi romance or Krishna-Draupadi romance. It is available for free on Kindle Unlimited as well.

For a more comprehensive version, Ramesh Menon has a 10 volume version.

Ramesh Menon has tons of deliberately inserted errors.

1. Presence of Radha, who is not mentioned in any of the main Krishna texts (MBh, HV, or SB)

2. Khandava which involves Satyabhama when it was Draupadi. Satyabhama was nowhere close to the scene in any version of MBh. She has no role to play in MBh except as listener to Draupadi once and in urging along the Yadava fratricide.

3. Hidimbi issue which was really Kunti agreeing to let Bheema father a child was turned into a romance.

4. Karna. He was educated by Dronacharya and was only refused the brahmashira because he openly stated he would use it to kill Arjuna. Karna then went and lied to Parasu Ram to get it anyway. Ramesh Menon says Karna was not given any education by Drona.

5. Vyasa says Karna asked Panchali to be disrobed completely. Ramesh Menon completely changes it and says Karna only asked for her silks to be changed into whatever slaves wear 😆.

6. The parts about what Panchali did in the empire, her work as the finance minister and citizen liaison, were completely edited out by Ramesh Menon. She was reduced to a caricature, a helpless woman saved by the male Krishna. Vyasa's Panchali saved herself. Even the Bombay edition says Panchali's own dharma saved her. There was no calling to Krishna in the scene. She also put up a hell of a legal argument about the rights of elite rulers who *lose themselves* to then presume authority over others. Ramesh Menon destroyed that as well

Plenty of other errors too. Ramesh Menon is as much a retelling as any of the other versions. It is not a straight translation. Rather, a fantasy version as you said. The characters in the Ramesh Menon version are not the same as Vyasa's characters. Karna was changed into the TV show version of deprived orphan. Panchali was changed into damsel in distress. Of all the manipulations that are distasteful, what Ramesh Menon did to Panchali's character is terrible. He stripped away everything that made her great.

Regarding romances. There are 3 mentions of pranaya in association with Panchali in the Critical Edition. Only once does she herself say it directly to someone. I'm not going to state who and start another war. But the Sanskrit version is available for free online.

Anyway, for a translation, BORI Critical Edition ones are the most reliable. Debroy is the only one who has done A to Z as far as I know.

Gita Press is also reliable though they don't rely on BORI CE.

If you are looking for free, sacred texts website has the entire KMG version for free. It is a translation of the Neelkantha commentary.

These concern only the northern recension translations. Southern MBh recension is significantly longer.

so kangana says something dumb as usual and ppl here start pellofying gyaan on mythology.SMH😑