03-09-2005, 03:27 AM
AJay wrote
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It would b good to read one chapter in MB which is called "Draupadi-Dharamaraja Samvada" in which Draupadi counsels YudhishThira to act like the Kshatriya he is, to break the vow of the Aranayavasa and Ahnatavasa and take the war to Kauravas. But Yudhishtira does not listen to her but goes through the requisite 12 years of Aranyavasa and 1 year Agnatavasa hardship.
This could be fit into Sunil's model as follows. Dharmaraja might have felt that the time is not ripe, i.e. the proper environment has not been created to garner popular support from the citizens and other rulers and would lose the war against powerful foe.
Whatever Kauravas and Shakuni did was par for the course. Nobody would act nobly when the stakes are as high as they were. It is only in superficial (or some would say "propagandizing") movies like "Troy" and "Alexander" one would see noble intentions ascribed to what were basically blood-thirsty Greek barbarians.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-"Kanu"+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Kanu")<!--QuoteEBegin-->{excerpts from Mahabharata deleted)...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It would b good to read one chapter in MB which is called "Draupadi-Dharamaraja Samvada" in which Draupadi counsels YudhishThira to act like the Kshatriya he is, to break the vow of the Aranayavasa and Ahnatavasa and take the war to Kauravas. But Yudhishtira does not listen to her but goes through the requisite 12 years of Aranyavasa and 1 year Agnatavasa hardship.
This could be fit into Sunil's model as follows. Dharmaraja might have felt that the time is not ripe, i.e. the proper environment has not been created to garner popular support from the citizens and other rulers and would lose the war against powerful foe.
Whatever Kauravas and Shakuni did was par for the course. Nobody would act nobly when the stakes are as high as they were. It is only in superficial (or some would say "propagandizing") movies like "Troy" and "Alexander" one would see noble intentions ascribed to what were basically blood-thirsty Greek barbarians.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->