Week 10 Reading Notes: The Mahabharata Epified part E

I still like Arjun's story and I think it is interesting that he had to get blessings from his first wife in order to marry the second.  I could easily write a story about the relationship between the two wives.  They could resent each other at first and then become best friends and get into trouble running around being girls.  The idea is interesting because the first wife did not have any friends besides her five husbands from what I have seen. 

The idea of the unborn child who listened to the stories is interesting as well.  There could easily be some kind of twist on this story.  It was interesting that when they told the story in the Mahabharata they made the young boy absorb the story but not the end because the mother fell asleep. 

It is also really interesting that the Pandavs cannot lose.  They will always win in everything, so this could make an interesting story because the idea could be put in a bunch of different settings.  They could be holding a match so that people come to try to defeat them, they could be facing monsters, or they could be just fighting other bad people. 

The gambling part of the story is interesting as well.  I could use this to create a story of two kings that gamble with their kingdoms.  It could be funny if the townspeople in the kingdom were used to it and just got kind of mad about it but they didn't really care that much.  Weird things could happen in the town as a result of the gambling.  For example, if the king gambled and won a bunch of cows they would all have to live somewhere so they would show up overnight.  Maybe another day all of the flower pots are gone because the king gambled them away.  It could be interesting to write from the townspeople's perspectives. 

Reading:  Pixabay

Source:  The Mahabharata Epified Part E