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Remember what Vidura said towards the end of the previous chapter, that someone who incites his enemy "cannot presume to be secure, only because he...

Ravana quickly regained his senses and hurled a spear given to him by Brahma. The spear blazed in the air and struck Lakshmana, making him fall. Ra...

Vidura likens the Kouravas to the forest and the Pandavas to the tigers that reside in the forest. His injunction to the king is to not cut down th...

He sat down on the ground in the forest and recalled Gandhari’s curse. A hunter Jara, who had come there, saw Krishna from far. He thought Krishna’...

Trijata’s words pacified Sita, and they returned to the Ashokavana. Meanwhile, Rama had regained consciousness and woke up. He was distraught seein...

So far we have covered three chapters of Vidura Niti - 254 of 541 shlokas - or a little less than half of Vidura Niti, which is entirely contained ...

Everyone knows the story of Shrikrishna's birth and the events in his parents' lives leading up to that. Kamsa out of fear for his life at the hands of the eighth son of Devaki decided kill all of them at childbirth. Chapter 2 of Vishnu Parva of Shri Harivamsha Purana tells the backstory of the first 6 sons of Devaki and Vasudev, who were killed by Kamsa. This post is about them.

Thirty-six years after the end of the Kurukshetra war, there were many bad omens. The Pandavas then learnt that the Yadavas had killed themselves a...

Vibhishana had sent his spies to Lanka. He reported their findings to Rama, explaining how the four gates were guarded by the best of Ravana’s men....

We have been so busy glorifying Karna's role as a friend in Mahabharata - a friendship that pushed both the friends towards their doom and almost d...

Vidura ended the previous chapter by telling the king that Yudhishthira was fit to rule, that he had suffered much on account of his 'compassion an...

Vyasa explained that Dhritarashtra was a king of the Gandharvas while Pandu was a Marut. Duryodhana was Kali, while Shakuni was Dwapara. Arjuna was...