Different from each other in a hundred ways, Bhima and Krishna share one personality trait in Sarala Mahabharata, which is a remarkably creative retelling in Odia, in the fifteenth century, of Vyasa Mahabharata. It is this: neither can be contented. In different respects, though! Insatiable, says the poet Sarala, was Bhima’s hunger for a fight, …
POLITICS OF THE WAR CODE
The negotiations to avoid war between the Pandava and the Kaurava brothers had failed and war was imminent. Duryodhana appealed to the kings who had chosen to fight for him to give him victory. They told him that the Pandavas themselves were great warriors and with Krishna on their side, they were invincible. Notwithstanding all …
Sarala Mahabharata 