MAHABHARATH WAR

THE WAR It was something like a cricket match, lasting eighteen days, at fixed hours every day. Off the field, they all met and discussed the day’s events. Inexplicably, the war zone was Kurukshetra, far away from Indraprasth, where the palace is located. The opponents stand at either end of the field and start fighting, when the bugle (conch- shamkhu) is blown. At sunset, it stops. There is no mention of fighters injured, because, they go on fighting till death. The very first day, Arjun told his charioteer Krishn about the futility of the war. What price for victory? Killing blood relations? I do not want to fight, he told Krisshn. The latter hoodwinked Arjun and the fight began. Krishn used every trick in his armory to thwart the enemy, including telling lies. In the end, somehow he achieved his aim of annihilating the Kingdoms north of the Vindhya parvath. Gandhary told him point blank about his misdeeds and cursed him He had escaped to Dwaraka, having failed in his fight against Rugmy and Jarasandh; but like a vuture smelling death, he came to Indraprasth, solely to foment trouble KRISHNA CULT In Mahabharath, Krishn is human, not god. The poet Jayadev made him a legend, removed all stains from his character and presented the Radha-Krishn love story. Radha is the wife of a handicapped man in Gokul, among many who had illicit relations with the cow herd boy, whose flute became a call for sex orgy. Even the marriage between Radha and Krishn is celebrated every year in the Brahman villages in Palakkad. The legitimate wife Sathyabhama is ignored!