Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata Part A

Drona Tests the Princes (Indian Epics: Images and PDE Epics)

Sources:

1. The Sons of Pandu, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.
2. Gandhari and Dhritarashtra, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.
3. The Contest, Mahabharata, Epic of the Bharatas, Romesh C. Dutt.

Team Pandavas:

1. Parents : Pandu (father, dead), Kunti (first wife, alive), Madri (second wife, dead)
2. Kunti's children:
1. Yudhishthira (father, Dharma, God of Justice)
2. Bhima (father Vayu, God of wind)
3. Arjuna (father Indra, king of heaven)
3. Madri's children:
1. Nakula (father Ashwin twins, son of Sun God Surya)
2. Sahadeva (father Ashwin twins, son of Sun God Surya)
   

Team Kauravas:

1. Parents: Dhritarashtra (father, blind), Gandhari (mother)
2. Duryodhana eldest son 
3. 99 younger sons (so far most are nameless)

The Contest:

1. Bhima and Duryodhana fight
1. they use maces
2. both took it seriously
3. turned deadly
4. Drona (their trainer) stopped the match
5. it was a draw
2. Arjuna displays his archery
1. hard targets
2. small targets
3. wild boar plates had five arrows in their mouths
4. a moving cow horn on a string was struck 21 times