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
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
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
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
Bhurisrava Satyaki, fatigued after fighting alongside Arjuna, was confronted by Bhurisrava. There was no good blood between the two due to a family rivalry that dated back many years, when Satyaki’s grandfather, Shini, had gone to … Read More
The Duel Between Bhima And Karna But the attack the Kaurava launched on Bhima had disastrous effects for him; seriously injured, he had to resort to the care of medical experts, who relieved him of … Read More
Bhima In The Wake Of Satyaki But that day it was not only the Pandavas who felt encouraged by the deeds of their heroes; on the other hand, Drona sowed death and terror like Arjuna and … Read More
Bhishma Is Appointed Commander When Duryodhana arrived in Kuruksetra his army had already been encamped there for several days. Together with his friends and allies he inspected the army and in the course of a meeting … Read More
Satyaki, The Great Hero Despite being exhausted from the hard duel he fought with Drona, Satyaki passed the first layer with relative ease, which had already been nearly destroyed earlier by Arjuna. It was the second … Read More
