Indian epics, retold
I'm reading the whole, unabridged Mahabharata and retelling it as I go: funny, faithful to the text, and full of people you've never heard of.
indite: to compose; to set a story down in words.
Season 1: Before the Kurus · coming soon
- 0Ugrashravas: the narrator's narratorWho is telling this story, to whom, and why it's three stories deep.
- 1Janamejaya and the snake sacrificeArjuna's great-grandson, a revenge ritual, and why the Mahabharata gets told at all.
- 2Kadru, Vinata and GarudaA bet over a horse's tail, an enslaved mother, and a bird who steals the nectar of immortality.
- 3Kacha and DevayaniThe student who learned the secret of resurrection, and the teacher's daughter he wouldn't marry.
Then Yayati, Shakuntala, Bhishma's vow, Amba's revenge and more, all the way to Vyasa.
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