Author Archives: Dr. Jeayaram

In the previous episode, we had witnessed King Paandu renouncing his kingdom and descending to the forest along with his wives Kunthi and Maaadri. This was after King Paandu was inflicted with a terrible curse from Sage Kindama who was in the form of a deer. As per the curse, King Paandu wouldn’t be ableContinue reading “Episode # 114 – Bheemasena and Duryodhana are born on the same day!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed King Paandu and Dhirdiraashtra getting married. King Paandu got married initially only to Kunthi Devi, and Dhirdiraashtra got married to Gaandhaari from the Shubala Desha. As days progressed, everything was very smooth at Hastinapura and King Paandu was ruling the kingdom efficiently by discharging all his duties, untilContinue reading “Episode # 113 – Birth of KARNA – A brief accord!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed the continuation after the birth of Dhirdiraashtra and Paandu. Upon Satyavati’s request to Sage Veda-Vyaasa, Ambika and Ambaalika were to meet him again so that there might be a solution for the handicaps that both the children had, but both were reluctant to do so. Instead, Ambika sentContinue reading “Episode # 112 – Sage Kindama badly curses King Paandu – Leaves him shell-shocked!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed the birth of Dhirdiraashtra and Paandu to Ambika and Ambaalika respectively. This is a landmark event in the Mahabharata text and we’ve also witnessed why Dhiridraashtra was blind by birth and why Paandu had fits right from day one. Since Ambika closed her eyes upon seeing the shabbyContinue reading “Episode # 111 – KUNTHI DEVI and her background – A detailed accord!!!”

In the previous episode, we were at an important juncture wherein King Vichitraveerya passed away without leaving behind a legal heir to take over the kingdom. Concerned by this, Satyavati was longing for someone to help the kingdom out of this precarious situation. Someone has to emerge to lead the kingdom isn’t it? A kingdomContinue reading “Episode # 110 – Ambika gives birth to Dhirdiraashtra & Ambaalika gives birth to Paandu!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed Amba taking a savage resolution to somehow take revenge on Bhishmaachaarya for allegedly insulting her. As Amba goes on with her pursuit, nobody was willing to come forward to fight Bhishmaachaaraya as everyone knew his might and power. However, Amba was determined to take Bhishmaachaarya on, and sheContinue reading “Episode # 109 – Satyavati seeks Sage Veda-Vyasa’s intervention to obtain King Vichitraveerya’s successor!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed a landmark event in the entire Mahabharata text, wherein one of the “lethal weapons” to kill the invincible Bhishmaachaarya comes into existence. Of course, this is not going to be used right away, but we should remember that this “lethal weapon” exists, when the time comes much later.Continue reading “Episode # 108 – Bhishmacharya defeats Parashurama – Amba takes rebirth as “Shikandi”!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed King Shantanu’s son Vichitraveerya taking over the reins of the Hastinapura kingdom, thanks to Bhishmaachaarya and with this, King Vichitraveerya started ruling the kingdom effectively. Eventually, since Vichitraveerya was a small boy when he took over the reins of the kingdom, his mother Satyavati was assisting him inContinue reading “Episode # 107 – Amba obtains a divine garland from Bhagawan Muruga to kill Bhishmaachaarya!!!“

In the previous episode, we had witnessed an important event in the Mahabharata story that is going to have implications right from this moment onwards until the end of the entire accord. Upon the charioteer’s information that King Shantanu is refusing to marry Satyavati because of the condition that Devavrata shouldn’t ascend to the throneContinue reading “Episode # 106 – King Vichitraveerya – Next king of Hastinapura after Shantanu!!!”

In the previous episode, we had witnessed King Shantanu losing Ganga Devi forever, as he had questioned her on her action of strangling the eighth child to death. As this was a breach of their marriage rule, she immediately left King Shantanu without any further arguments. King Shantanu too couldn’t ask anything because it wasContinue reading “Episode # 105 – The “BHISHMA-PRATIGNYA” – Devavrata takes a pledge of his life!!!”