week 5: reading diary A

The epic starts with Valmiki telling the story to the elephant headed god Ganesha. The main character Devavrata  also know as Bhishma is human a man with the vast power of the Vasus which is eight gods. He born and thrown into the ganges by a goddess. His father Shantau Abandoned his first wife Ganga and meet a new women called Satyavati. Devavrata then makes a terrible oath and is renamed Bhishma. He then battles for three princess of Kashi to be brides for son of Satyavati and his father. However only two women will be the wives of VIchitravirya, Devavrata step brother. He then dies before he could bare any children and Vyasa is called to be heir. Karna who was the son of Kunti was introduced. We learned about a feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Kunti who has been recently widowed then goes to Dhritarashtra who raises her five Pandu sons as Kauravas. Bhima then faces a scheme by Duryodhanas. He then travels to the underworld and faces the nagas. He returns a man who has becomes super strong.  Dronas a teacher of the Pandavas and the Kauravas is best friends with Kig Drupada. The Pandavas grow strong uner Drona and jealous of Duryodhana grows . Now both family had become great warriors and wanted to display there new skills in a tournament.  In a  practice fight between Bhima and Duryodhana, Duryodhana takes things a little to far. arujuna then shows off his skills and meets Karna. he is Arjuna brother as they both sons of Kunti. However Arunjuna does not realize this because Karna was casted out. Pavadava then succeed in getting revenge agianst  Drupada.

(Vyasa, websource Wikipedia)