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.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

THE STORY OF A BLESSING BY MISTAKE

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After Bhishma withdrew, obeying Krishna, the divine arrows he had shot to kill Arjuna, he asked the avatara, still on his chariot, why he ...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

THE STORY OF BELALASENA

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Belalasena’s story is in two parts: the first part is about his decapitation; the second, about his saying what he had seen happening in t...
Friday, August 4, 2017

SARALA'S SANJAYA

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In Sarala Mahabharata , Dhritarashtra did not ask his minister Sanjaya to tell him what was happening right then on the battlefields of Ku...
Friday, June 2, 2017

WAR OR NO WAR? THE FINAL ANSWER ACCORDING TO TWO ODIA MAHABHARATAS

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The Mahabharatas in question are Sarala’s Mahabharata of the fifteenth century and Mahabharata by the sixteenth century poet, Jagannath...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

THE REVENGE OF THE DEAD: THE STORY OF THE SPECIAL DICE OF SAKUNI

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From one point of view, it was not Sakuni who avenged the brutal murder of his father, uncles and relatives by his nephew, Duryodhana; it ...

GANDHARASENA'S GREED

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A manuscript of Sarala Mahabharata has a slightly different story of King Gandharasena but the difference is both quite interesting and s...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

CONCERNING DURYODHANA'S KILLING OF HIS MATERNAL GRANDFATHER

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Here my main purpose is not to retell a story from Sarala Mahabharata but only respond, by way of story-telling, to some important questi...
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