Five Blue Stones- Seeds of Krishna-Arjuna Relationship Have Grown - Page 7

Originally posted by: medha00

Hey then stop calling me didi ... i am probably younger than you since i am in high school man ..

btw have you read mrityunjaya and yajnaseni

The Aryavarta Chronicles?

And Arjuna-the saga?

I am calling you di coz of your knowledge.

I have read mrityunjaya and kinda liked it. Half read yajnaseni and hated it. Read the first book (Govinda) of aryavarta chronicles (cant still make mind about it - on the fence for now). Arjuna -the saga - have yet to read.

It is actually refreshing to find somebody to discuss mb. After my dad's death, I had kinda given up on discussing mb.

PS - If u want to know more abt me (kinda hoping) u can google my name - a.p.rajshekhar

Originally posted by: raj_a_p

I am calling you di coz of your knowledge.

I have read mrityunjaya and kinda liked it. Half read yajnaseni and hated it. Read the first book (Govinda) of aryavarta chronicles (cant still make mind about it - on the fence for now). Arjuna -the saga - have yet to read.

It is actually refreshing to find somebody to discuss mb. After my dad's death, I had kinda given up on discussing mb.

PS - If u want to know more abt me (kinda hoping) u can google my name - a.p.rajshekhar

Originally posted by: medha00

A.P. Rajshekhar, Senior Developer with Red Hat?

Aap to bohot hi bade aadmi nikele ... ab to mai aapko bhaiya bulaungi ..

Mrityunjaya is written so beautifully and is truly worth reading, but it is quite clear that these boks written on just one character are always biased ...

I loved it, Hats off to Sawant but all these books with character studies and their own interpretation of mahabharata, can they be used to compare the greatness of two characters as warriors or humans?

Arjuna and Mrityunjaya, govinda, yajnaseni, kauravas ... all these books are glorifying the characters and justifying all the wrong deeds or deluding them ...

Author of Arjuna, has presented him in a very endearing way ... openly showing his weaknesses, his arrogance and faults ... his relationship with his brothers and Krishna has been beautifully presented , in the end, if you dont know the hindu mythology and havent read mahabharata ... after reading this book you will know all the events of Mahabharata but you fall in love with the main character who by the end of the book comes across as a god in the garbs of human.

Mrityunjaya and Yajnaseni or the endless amounts of books on Krishna do the same thing. Mrityunjaya proved Karna to be the tragic hero of the era at the cost of showing that Arjuna was more arrogant or even more boastful than Karna??

It is truly entertaining to see people arguing in favor of Karna after reading mrityunjaya on this forum ...

I wonder if i start defending Arjuna by quoting the book and its interpretation of the events ... how many people will tell me that oh god dont be dumb its just a book written by a human like all of us.

Even though, the same goes for Mrityunjaya...

I wish someone here would be mature enough to admit the difference between books that are a translation of MB and the books written by people that are their own interpretation of MB ... har koi agar apna apna point of view likhne lage while writing MB ... then there will be millions of versions of it In India alone.

Aap to bohot hi bade aadmi nikele- Maane? You can call me whtever u like, I will call u di only 😃

You are correct. I stopped discussing mb due to this only. People will read mrityunjay and will keep on saying that karna is a verrry tragic hero. When I mention that its a book and not the translation they get bhav vibhore

PS - Arjun have been my hero from when I was weee little (4 yrs old).