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Jamy - is this the same uttara kanda which the scholars discovered in Kolkata's public library, the article that came yesterday in TOI? I m not that well versed with Valmiki's Ramayana, so I don't have much idea about the 7 kandas as well.

So much discussions about first wives, and I missed them all! Sigh!

ravan and sita's illicit affiar, yaar, pehle hi agni pareeksha de chuki hain woh, ab bas karo, dhobano.

Actually...as per my friend who has read that book...Ma Sita did not give Agni Pariksha right away.
Lord Ram did not ask her to give Agni Pariksha then...
It was only after this drawing incident that she was asked to give Agni Pariksha...

I dont know wat is true... 😭

Seems to me like another Jambu fruit.

I had lost respect for Devdutta Pattanaik the day I heard that in his book he had made Lord Krishna scold Draupadi for rejecting Karna n blamed all her misery for that one insult.

Well...had it been a random novelist then we could have called it 'creative liberty'.
But Devadutta Pattanaik is a well-known mythologist n a scholar who has done research for years.
So much so that he has even concluded that the Bhagavad Gita is a later addition.

Someone who knows SO MUCH and considers Indra, etc as a post n not one God...who knows Bhagavad Gita is a later addition, does not know that Sutaputra comment is a later addition too...Huh!!

On top of that it is he who had suggested(if I am not wrong) that Draupadi kicked out her other co-wives from Indraprastha...something which I never found in the epic...please correct me if I am wrong.
His blogs are quite famous n the perfect agent for brainwashing novice readers.

Originally posted by: ---Anu---

Jamy - is this the same uttara kanda which the scholars discovered in Kolkata's public library, the article that came yesterday in TOI? I m not that well versed with Valmiki's Ramayana, so I don't have much idea about the 7 kandas as well.

All I have read of Ramayana is that of C.Rajagopalachari, which is based on Valmiki, but does not have all the details!

Edit - Ok, My bad! The discovery was about Vanhi Purana or<font size="2" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dasa Griba Rakshash Charitram Vadha,</font> I believe! Honestly, after wrapping my brains around MB till this time, it has totally gone for a toss now!😆

Seriously...I have got so damn addicted to Mahabharat.
Now if I keep debating for ten more years then maybe in the end, I might have to run away to the Himalayas n take permanent Sannyas for peace... 😆
And maybe also try for Mahaprasthan... 😆

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

I googled on that Amrita. It is from Uttara Khanda of Valmiki Ramayana which many scholars consider to be a later addition. Full Ramayana story is there in Vana Parva of MB also. But it ends with Rama Pattabhisheka. So I think Uttara Khanda is a later addition happened after MB.

Uff...
Damn these people who added so many things to their heart's content n made our life tougher.
Now we'll have to keep debating forever...

Originally posted by: amritat

Seriously...I have got so damn addicted to Mahabharat.
Now if I keep debating for ten more years then maybe in the end, I might have to run away to the Himalayas n take permanent Sannyas for peace... 😆
And maybe also try for Mahaprasthan... 😆

@Anu - Ramayana actually has only five Kandas. Even Bala Kanda is a later addition, formed from some parts of original Ayodhya Kanda and other irrelevant stories, say many scholars.

@amrita - AFAIK, Seeta did not enter fire as per the version MB Vana Parva has and in Valmiki Ramayana, she entered fire and Agni deva appears holding her. This was before Rama returning Ayodhya after killing Ravana. When Rama sees Seetha he tells her that he came Lanka and killed Ravana only to show the world he had been a dutiful husband and now she was free to choose even a monkey or rakshasa as her husband for Rama did not want her anymore as she had spent pretty good time in Lanka. To this, Seetha gives a taunting and mocking reply, asks Lakshmana to prepare a pyre and jumps in. But there are practical difficulties to believe this.(a tiresome task to type that right now) So I consider this jumping in fire was a finding of later male chauvinists who did not want to believe Rama accepted Seetha as she was.

Originally posted by: amritat

Uff...
Damn these people who added so many things to their heart's content n made our life tougher.
Now we'll have to keep debating forever...

That is very true. But Ramayana is far better in that case than MB. Ramayana is a small book and we can easily understand what could possibly be an interpolation.

Fearless, steadfast, Karn never backs down - A witty cynic teenager who hangs around with his band of boys, killing time & smartly fighting rival gangs. === This show is still stuck here.😆