Re: REQUEST : Mahabharata - the ending of the story
Posted By ss0u@lehigh.edu (ss0u@lehigh.edu)
29 Jul 1997 17:24:51 -0400
In article <ghenEE2D58.6q5@netcom.com>, venkatj@fstpitch.corp.sgi.com (Venkatesh
Jagadeeshwara) writes:
>In article <ghenEDx3v7.I36@netcom.com>, you write:
>
>|> Just been watching Peter Brook's Mahabharata. The ending intrigued
>|> me. All the Kauravs ending in heaven and Pandavs in hell. Can
>|> someone throw any light on this??
>|>
>|> Also, Abhimanyu's widow's son is saved and is supposed to be the only
>|> survivor. What's his name and who he does he reproduce with??
>|>
>|> Also, Kaurav's are depicted as bad guys and Pandavs as the good guys.
>|> I thought it was more like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
>|>
>|> Your responses much appreciated,
>|>
>|> Regards, Perwesh
>
>Please watch B.R.Chopra's TV serial "Mahabharata".He extensively covers
>almost all parts of "Mahabharata" till the kuruskeshtra war ends.
>
>Abhimanyu's widow's son is "Parishkitha" and his son Janumayjaya is the
>last king of ChandraVamsha.
>
>"Parishkitha" gets killed by a snake bite,basically a curse of a sage.
>
>Kaurav's are depicted as bad guys because they follow adharma and
>Pandavs as the good guys because they follow the real RajaDharma.
>Krishna stays where the Dharma is,ie., Pandavas.
>
>At the end when all padavas die on the way to heaven ,only Yudistira
>goes to heaven and rest of them including Arjuna goes to hell.Yudistira
>sees Kaurav's in heaven and questions Devandra about it and gets the
>answer that Kaurav's have sinned most and done very little good work,
>and they will spend their time initially in heaven for a little time and
>then
>go to hell and it is otherwise in case of pandavas.
>
>
>
>Venkatesh
>
>
>--
>Venkatesh
>--
Even though the Kaurav's were on the side of "adharma" they died in a
"Dharmayuddhya". So they were entitled to spend atleast some time in heaven.
They had to go to hell after that as Venkatesh mentioned. My source of
information is the "Chhotoder Mahabharat" (The Mahabharat written for kids by
Upendrakishore Roychowdhury in Bengali. Roychowdhury, incidently is the
grandfather of Satyajit Ray)
Sambit.
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