Sarala Mahabharat

Here I will post some short pieces on Sarala Mahabharata. Sarala Das is known as the "aadikavi" (the first poet) of Oriya Literature. He lived and wrote in the 15th Century. Mahabharat is his magnum opus. The episodes in Sarala's Mahabharat are significantly different from those in Vyasa's (Sanskrit) Mahabharat. Some of these posts have been translated into French, German and Hindi.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

THE KILLING OF DUSSASANA

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Dussasana died a terrible death - to put it mildly. But then even superlatives wouldn’t adequately capture the horror of it. Bhima literally...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

KUNTI AND GANDHARI

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The sisters-in-law were no great friends of each other. Gandhari was issueless when Yudhisthira was born. She felt insecure and worried. Bei...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

SAKUNI’S END

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Sakuni survived in the Mahabharata war till the penultimate day. He had seen Bhishma incapacitated, Drona decapitated, Karna slain, Dussasan...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

AS DURYODHANA FELL

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Duryodhana fell when Bhima hit his thigh hard, and then he tore his wounded enemy him up to his navel. As blood gushed out, Bhima made a t...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

DURYODHANA'S BURDEN OF DESTINY

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Sarala's Duryodhana was doomed virtually from birth. He and his ninety-nine brothers were born outside of their mother's womb throug...
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Friday, September 7, 2007

The Story of Durdasa

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Durdasa of Sarala’s Mahabharata, the first retelling of the classical story in Oriya in the fifteenth century, strongly reminds one of Yuyut...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

On Two Acts of Revenge

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There are two major acts or revenge in Sarala’s Mahabharata (also called Saaralaa Mahaabhaarata here, following popular usage, in which th...
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