tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post7598074408888065119..comments2023-10-17T14:25:05.693+05:30Comments on Sarala Mahabharat: THE SECOND GAME OF DICEB.N.Patnaikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08758591513346337483noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-50236916004255730282013-12-05T08:14:30.424+05:302013-12-05T08:14:30.424+05:30once, yudhishthira refers to his brother sahadeva ...once, yudhishthira refers to his brother sahadeva as learned man in vyaasa mahabahrata. This one line has been extrapolated into so many legends of Sahadeva's learning, his prescience, which are all beautiful. this is one of them, where sahadeva knows the purpose of the heavenly dice. And I think I like this Sahadeva better. He doe snot have much of a personality in Vyaasa'a version<br /><br />in the vyaasa mahabharata, the second game of dice happens immediately after the first one, Shakuni and gang bring the pandavas back when they have already started out for indraprastha. <br /><br />his loss in the dice game did hit yudhisthira badly, and so there is the incident of him learning the art from dhumya later during his vanvasa, skills which he used to entertain king virata. <br /><br />these were some minor differencs i observed between the two versions. This little story tells you sarala's orientation was vastly different from Vyaasa's. For Sarala, every event is not just an event, but a fated one which has a purpose. Events are not allowed to unfold at the agency of the characters, they have to be directed by divine will. Very interesting! I had heard of the inevitability of the Mahabharata war and how things were engineered to lead to it, but not of the death of Kichaka. Thank you again for sharing this intersting piece :)sewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06585803927051681826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-47983295570626906832012-08-29T15:19:33.023+05:302012-08-29T15:19:33.023+05:30Sir,
I really am interested to read SARALA MAH...Sir,<br /> I really am interested to read SARALA MAHABHART ,but unable to get it .Please suggest me where to get it.Waiting for your valuable reply.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16174099915631692294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-46514724454703915632012-08-29T15:17:27.325+05:302012-08-29T15:17:27.325+05:30Sir though I dont know everything of Mahabharat ,I...Sir though I dont know everything of Mahabharat ,I really am interested to read SARALA MAHABHARAT .Please suggest me where to get it.Waiting for your valuable reply.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16174099915631692294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-2968433466106026282012-08-16T06:35:24.280+05:302012-08-16T06:35:24.280+05:30Though I do not have the opportunity to read Saral...Though I do not have the opportunity to read Sarala Mahabharata, let me introduce the concept of Yayati and Babur Complex as it was understood from my social milieu. <br />This project is on the age discrimination as it is found in the tyrant patriarchal society. It departs from the Freudian/Jungian meta-psychological project of universal Oedipus Complex and simultaneously adds something opposite to it. There is a reverse trend of castrating the younger one as well as an antithetical drive for preserving the progeny. Instead of “being father, having mother, which might be a possibility in some kowms, there is another trend of annihilating younger generation, i.e., “satisfied father with (physically or mentally) terminated sons.” Freud-Jung took their cue from Greek mythology and Bandypadhyay reiterates the so-called Hindu purana (the epic of Mahabharata that explains the repressive forces in society to primal repression by a father jealous of his male child's youth and virility), to elaborate this hypothesis. In the Mahabharata, it was told that Yayati took his youngest son’s (Puru) vitality to restore his cursed aging. This planned process (with Malthusian mindset) of termination of younger generation is observed in the domain of certain society. Thus Bandyopadhyay names it as Yayati complex. On the other hand, the caring attitude towards younger generation is named after war-monger Babur, by remembering his effort to save his child. The Babur Complex relates the popular legend of the Timurid Conqueror Babur (1483-1531), who when his son and heir apparent Humayun fell sick and was declared dying by the court physicians , circled his sick bed thrice and prayed for the ailment to be given to him and his wards life be spared to altruistic actions by patriarchal figures in society . In this case, the nexus between saving the progeny and the preservation of private property is also being observed. Bandyopadhyay questioned the Freud’s taxonomy of mind and proposed a different taxonomy by rearranging the concept of mind as it is found in sahajiya tradition. The simultaneous and overlapping operations of Yayati and Babur complex (thanatos and eros) originate from context-sensitive ego and not from the Id (Freud thought that Oedipus/Electra complex was formed from the Id), therefore there is no universal truth-claim on the part of Bandyopadhyay regarding the existence of Yayati/Babur complex as it varies in different spaces and times. --Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay http://ssrn.com/abstract=2019654debaprasad bandyopadhyayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12982633529812725768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-58834464909755168172010-10-26T14:39:17.618+05:302010-10-26T14:39:17.618+05:30Dear Sir Can you please add in short how was the s...Dear Sir Can you please add in short how was the second game of dice played in Vyasadev's Mahabharat as you did in Aswasthama story. Because I want to know in what way Sarala differ from Vyasa's original. I also read Mayadhar Mansingh's History of Oriya literature where he says Sarala has modified the Mahabharat to suit the local orissan natural and cultural condition.Akhayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07917449692067781114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-37142800644762634952010-08-18T20:35:23.146+05:302010-08-18T20:35:23.146+05:30For Mr. Miki:
Sarala's Mahabharata has not be...For Mr. Miki:<br /><br />Sarala's Mahabharata has not been translated into English. I also do not know of a translation of this work in any Indian language. There are a number of good studies of Sarala Dasa's works in Odia (earlier, Oriya)language. As for books on Sarala in English, I would suggest Krishna Chandra Panigrahi's book "Sarala Dasa", published by Sahitya Academi, New Delhi, and the relevant portions of Mayadhara Manasinha's "History of Oriya Literature", same publishers.<br /><br />But if you know Odia, please start with Sarala's Mahabharata. Nothing like it!B.N.Patnaikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758591513346337483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-8307060595987630532010-08-18T20:21:06.159+05:302010-08-18T20:21:06.159+05:30It will be a great help if the comment is accompan...It will be a great help if the comment is accompanied by its English version. Even a rough translation will do. We will be able to benefit from the comments.B.N.Patnaikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758591513346337483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-86586104470661655672010-07-21T18:50:06.712+05:302010-07-21T18:50:06.712+05:30Which is the best book / author to read up on Sara...Which is the best book / author to read up on Sarala's Mahabharata?Mikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536416477157114372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-49378343254289049992010-05-23T18:19:52.840+05:302010-05-23T18:19:52.840+05:30fantastic, bravo, mr. patnaik keep up the good wor...fantastic, bravo, mr. patnaik keep up the good workUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15994568117289325978noreply@blogger.com