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Drupada, after being defeated by Drona had performed a yajna (sacrifice) to get a powerful son to avenge his humiliation. From the fire emerged a...

What led to Mahabharat? Was it the love for power? Or the craze for revenge? Or plain jealousy? Or injustice had to be put to an end!? Whatever the...

Just short of 2 million words and about ten times the size of Illiad and Odyssey put together- such is our Mahabharatha. This great epic is so volu...

There is a popular story about Agastya rishi visiting demon brothers Ilvala and Vatapi, where Ilvala deceived him into eating Vatapi with the inte...

One day Drona pretended to be caught by a crocodile. Without a second thought, Arjuna killed the crocodile and saves Drona even as the others watch...

Kunti was a single mother who raised 5 highly capable and righteous sons, despite the hardships and constant threat to their lives. She also surv...

Meanwhile Pandu who wanted a powerful son asked Kunti to summon Vayu, the God of the Wind. The son born was named Bheema. He was so strong that as ...

Before the start of the great war both Duryodhana and Arjuna visited Dwaraka to seek alliance with Shrikrishna. While Shrikrishna was asleep Duryo...

When all the efforts at diplomacy had failed, armies for both Pandava and Kaurava stood at the battlefield of Kurukshetra facing each other. All t...

Everyone remembers the story of a poor tribal boy who wanted to study archery under Guru Dronacharya. When the renowned Guru declined to accept hi...

Bheeshma flatly refused to break his vow but suggested that the principle of Niyoga can be used to produce an heir. He suggested that a Brahmana we...

The sage Ugrashrava known as Souti narrated the entire story of the Mahabharata to the sages in the Naimisha forest during the sacrifice conduct...