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.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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  V DHRITARASTRA’S ANGUISH   In the darkness of the night, Duryodhana, rattled, scared, intensely lonely and blood all over his body, fl...
Friday, October 9, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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  IV VIDURA"S SILENCE For the Great War at Kurukshetra there was no one person in Sarala Mahabharata who everyone blamed as being sole...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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III BHIMA'S OATH In Sarala Mahabharata , Kunti and Yudhisthira thought of Bhima as dusta . It would be grossly unfair to translate “ dus...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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II ARJUNA'S REVENGE In the episode of “The Mango of Truth” (see the post on June 9, 2005 in this blog), Arjuna had told Krishna this tru...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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I YUDHISTHIRA'S HALF-TRUTH Yudhisthira was persuaded to tell Drona “The man or the elephant Aswasthama was dead’ but utter “...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

A LIST OF ARTICLES ON SARALA MAHABHARATA

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These articles deal with the creativity of Sarala as the re-teller of the canonical text and the richness and the depth of his poetic vis...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

FAKE PEOPLE (IN THE WORLD OF SARALA MAHABHARATA)

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Made of the three gunas , namely, satwa , raja and tama , and destined to live enveloped in maya , humans lack the necessary clarity of v...
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