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.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

ON THE INVOCATION IN SARALA MAHABHARATA

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Krushna Singh, the king of a small kingdom in what is today’s Southern Odisha, retold Vyasa’s Mahabharata in Odia, which is popularly kno...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

WHY DID KARNA WANT TO KILL ARJUNA

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when in Sarala’s narrative he knew right from his childhood that he was his brother? Why was he so focused on killing him? In the Kurukshe...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

WHAT DID SARALA SAY ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF HIS COMPOSITION?

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He said more than once in his Mahabharata that he was born to write Vishnu Purana . He repeatedly called his composition “ Vishnu Puran...

RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS

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Some of my friends and well-wishers, quite a few of whom I have not yet had the opportunity to meet, have asked me questions and made co...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

YUDHISTHIRA IN SWARGA

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When Yudhisthira reached the top of Himagiri, he saw around him four distant, tall, snow-clad mountains which, he had heard from the s...
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THE KILLING OF KARNA

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In a significant sense his mother Kunti had killed him before the Kurukshetra War started. Indra had done so even before. In the guise...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

THE DEATH OF ARJUNA, NAKULA AND SAHADEVA

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There was nothing dramatic about the death of Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva in Sarala Mahabharata . Unlike Bhima’s death. Weak, hungry a...
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