(Same Events, Different Narratives, Different Insights) The composition of the timeless epic, Mahabharata, did not give contentment to the great poet, so goes the legend. Sage Narada told him that it was because he had not expatiated on the supreme majesty and glory of Sri Krishna. He would attain spiritual contentment by depicting his leela …
BHIMA AND KRISHNA: A RELOOK
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, …
Sarala Mahabharata 