Epics of India MLLL 4993

Read the updated version of this story on my Indian Epics Portfolio here: link . Amba on  Wikimedia Bhishma had been overseeing King Vichitravirya as his regent since he was a boy. When the King came of age and was ready to marry, Bhishma went out and stole three princesses from far away, Amba, Ambalika, and Ambika. Since no one dared to fight Bhishma to win the princesses back, the three women went to live in Bhishma’s kingdom. The eldest, Amba, went in private to confess something to Bhishma. “Sir”, she said, “I am honored that you have chosen me to be a wife of your king. However, I must be honest with you and tell you that I have promised myself to wed King Salwa. It would not be honorable to marry anyone else.” So saying, Bhishma wished her well on her journey to the King of the Salwas. Upon arriving at the gates of the Salwa city, Amba was immediately taken to meet with King Salwa and his advisors. Expecting the one she had promised herself to to be joy...

Image on  Flickr For my Reading B notes of the Mahabharata, I took my notes in list format. I noted important names (trying to keep people and relationships straight!) and events. Also, I occasionally quoted directly from the reading notes provided with the PDE version to help. When I do this, I always use quotation marks so that I do not accidentally plagiarize when it comes to summarizing the work or writing my stories. I also watched the YouTube video explaining some of the key differences between the Mahabharata and Game of Thrones, one of my favorite shows. Some of the character comparisons did not seem as important to me. One of those was Littlefinger and Shakuni, and I had to look up Shakuni to remember who he was. Shakuni was Duryodhana’s uncle who was said to have started the Kurukshetra war. This relates to Littlefinger in that both men are highly intelligent, but they often cause others harm. In Game of Thrones, Littlefinger ends up bein...

Santanu, a king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, saw a beautiful woman on the banks of the river Ganga on  Wikimedia I chose the Public Domain Edition of the Mahabharata. I was excited to read that this epic has similarities to Game of Thrones, which I am a huge fan of. Reading about the similarities between the Mahabharata and Game of Thrones is something that I plan to do for my Reading Notes B post. Like the Ramayana, I found all of the names and their lineages to be extremely hard to remember. For my notes, I found that it was easiest to make bullet points of important people, relationships, and events. For some of my last posts in the Mythology and Folklore class, I have just been writing a few paragraphs about my impressions on the texts and do not need to take notes this way. Below I have posted a small section of my Mahabharata notes. I am not including all of them as they were about two and a half pages in length. Something that I liked in th...