The Eighteenth Day Shalya carefully analyzed his forces and the overwhelming ones of his opponents, then decided not to separate his troops and to go all out by attacking head-on. Personally stationed at the head of … Read More
Shalya Parva Shalya Appointed Commander Only a day had passed when the righteous Sanjaya, the disciple of Vyasa, returned again from Kurukshetra. Dhritarastra realized that it was all over, that Duryodhana and his … Read More
Sanjaya Begins To Tell The Story Not far from the lake Samanta-panchaka, created in ancient times by the avatara Parashurama, was stationed the great army of the Pandavas. When they left their tents that morning, everyone … Read More
Duryodhana And The Secret Of Karna The Kaurava soldiers, who had suffered the trauma of seeing three commanders downed in seventeen days, had withdrawn in a disorderly fashion. Shalya was among the last to return to … Read More
The Fall Of Karna Disappearing under a cascade of fiery arrows, Karna had miraculously managed to re-emerge by detonating each of those thousands of arrows with as many of his own. Unleashing blasts of fire, the … Read More
A pesar de estar exhausto después de la dura batalla que había luchado con Drona, Satyaki atravesó con relativa facilidad la primera capa, que en todo caso ya había sido casi destruida anteriormente por Arjuna. … Read More
The Duel Between Arjuna And Karna For a few moments everyone was petrified by that scene of unprecedented violence, no one had moved. Then Vrishasena, seized by a fit of rage, shouting menacingly, rushed towards Bhima. … Read More
The Tragic End Of Duhssasana And in the midst of a terrible turmoil, in the distance Arjuna saw Karna. “There he is,” he said to Krishna, “the last of our nightmares. When he dies, victory will … Read More
On The Seventeenth Day “Today I will not return to my tents,” Vivasvan’s son solemnly said to Duryodhana at dawn on the seventeenth day, “without having killed Arjuna first. This is my solemn vow, and only … Read More
Karna’s Appointment – The Sixteenth Day When the Kauravas and their troops entered the plain of Kurukshetra at dawn on the sixteenth day, Karna was at their head. The previous one had been truly disastrous for … Read More
Karna Parva Sanjaya Tells The blind king Dhritarastra, in pain for the fate of his surviving children, did not know how to give himself peace and spent the days and nights looking out of the … Read More
Asvatthama’s Anger News that Drona was dead quickly spread to every remote part of Kurukshetra. It took some time for everyone to believe it. And the Kauravas withdrew disorderly from the battlefield, leaving the enemy … Read More
Bhishma Parva Dhritarastra Prepares For The Great Tragedy Vyasa observed the two boundless armies belonging to his descendants, deployed one to the west and the other to the east. Thanks to his powers of clairvoyance, he … Read More
The Neutral Kings When the spies reported to the Pandavas that Bhishma had been appointed commander of the enemy army, they made their first strategic decisions as a result of the news they received. Had it … Read More
Drona Falls His brahmashtra had been neutralized, but Drona did not give up and trying to avoid clashing with Arjuna, continued the attack on another front. The soldiers, tired, could no longer contain him and, believing … Read More
The Fifteenth Day That restful sleep didn’t last long. After less than two hours the first flashes of sunshine began to peep timidly, and then more and more decisively flooded the battlefield of Kuruksetra. They all … Read More
Ghatotkacha To see him a keen terror seized anyone who found himself having to face him. He was very tall, his huge body massive and powerful, his face deformed into a perennial monstrous mask, and his … Read More
The Night War The Pandavas were overjoyed. Not only had Arjuna succeeded in his feat, but many great Kaurava fighters had fallen that day and Drona had also failed to capture Yudhisthira. Their victory had been … Read More
oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya The Maha-bharata told by Sri Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa is finally available on our bookstore. This edition has been called Maha-bharata As It Is because is perfectly faithful to the original, without unauthorized additions. … Read More
Jayadratha’s Death Seeing Bhurisrava dead ended up discouraging many soldiers and once again panic spread among the Kaurava troops; others, on the contrary, indignant and thirsty for revenge, felt their spirits on fire. Karna, accompanied by … Read More
