Reading Notes: The Mahabharata Part A

I enjoyed reading Part A of The Mahabharata! The story that caught my attention most is "Bhima and the Nagas". First, I would like to say, listening and reading to the story really has helped me visualize what was happening in the story.

In the beginning of the story Duryodhana poisoned Bhimas food and tried to kill him. I am going to retell this story by keeping the plot the same but just changing the characters and setting. Duryodhana obviously had much hate towards Bhima because he casted him to the Ganges. In my story I can have Bhima poisoned and casted to the spiders den. Instead of having the spiders bite him and the poison from the snakes balance out his consciousness, I could have the poison from the snakes to be the reason why the spiders don't bite him but have the spider webs squeeze the poison out of his body
for him to regain consciousness. Then he could burst out of the spider webs and scatter the spiders. Then be approached by someone, I'm not sure what kind of person yet but he/she will play the dweller of the underworld. I really want to make Bhima having triumph over Duryodhana a big deal in my story so I can emphasize Bhima having the strength of a mighty giant, like he does in the original story.

                                                
                                  Image Information: Child Bhima, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Child_bhima_fight_with_Nagas.jpg 



Bibliography: Donald A. Mackenzie, Mahabharata - http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/pde-mahabharata-pandavas-in-hiding.html

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