Reading Notes: The Five Tall Sons of Pandu, Part A

Notes:
  • Pandu is the father of the five tall sons:
    • Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva.
    • Pandu's brother, Dhritarashtra, is blind and becomes kind after Pandu passed away.
    • Dhritarashtra has 100 sons and hates Pandu's sons.
    • Drona trains the young princes in the arts of war.
  • Cousins engage in mock battles.
  • Karna challenges Arjuna in battle.
    • Duryodhana crowns the warrior as king of Huga.
  • Karna is the son of a charioteer and mocks him.
    • Karna is a warrior whose talents rival those of Arjuna.
  • Duryodhana tries to trap the Pandavas and their mother Pritha in a burnind house, but escaped disguising themselves as hermits.
  • Drupada sets up an archery target he thinks only Arjuna can hit.
    • Draupadi declares she will not accept a low-born husband.
    • A hermit, Arjuna in disguise, strings the bow and shoots the target.
  • Draupadi declares him the winner, but other suitors were angry and attack the hermits.
  • Arjuna then takes Draupadi home and tells his mother he won a prize.
  • Duryodhana takes the richer part if the kingdom along the Ganges and gives the western portion on the river Yamuna to the Pandavas.
    • Made Yudhishthira king.
  • Krishna uses his discus weapon to behead Shishupala.
  • Shakuni cheats and Yudjishthira loses everything, gambling even his brothers and himself from a game of dice.
  • Prince Dushasana drags Draupadi by the hair into the council chamber.
  • The pandavas and Draupadi go into the forest for twelve years of exile and thirteenth year that they must spend in disguise.
  • They spend the year of disguise in the court of King Virata: Yudhishthira as a brahmin priest, Bhima a cook, Arjuna a dancing master, Nakula as a stableboy, and Sahadeva as a cowboy.
    • The Pandavas concealed their weapons, disguised as corpses hanging from trees to prepare to fight Duryodhana and to retrieve the cattle.
  • Duryodhana escapes, but they rescue the cattle and bring them back to King Virata.
    • Now it's time for the Pandavas and Draupadi to reclaim their kingdom.
Bibliography: The Indian Story Book: The Five Tall Sons of Pandu, by Richard Wilson.

The Five Tall Sons of Pandu, Link Text.

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