Reading: Week 12 Part A

Mahabharata:

I was never able to get around to reading Part D of the Mahabharata of our readings in the weeks of 6 and 7. I am happy that these last few weeks of readings are free and that we are able to have time to read some of the things that we may have missed. 

" So died the gallant youth, pure as he was at birth. He died like to a forest lion surrounded by hunters; he sank like to the red sun at evening; he perished like to a tempest whose strength is spent; he was spent out even like a fire which has consumed a forest and is extinguished on the plain; Abhimanyu was lost as is the serene white moon when shrouded in black eclipse."

Death of Abhimanyu (Arjuna's son)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhimanyu

Side Note: I couldn't find where this Dushasana was and am hoping that he might be thee same Kichaka that humiliated Draupadi, the stories seem exactly the same: "Dussasana was very exhausted and he nearly fainted. The assembled men were amazed at this miracle. They condemned Dussasana and praised Draupadi. However, the princess was humiliated by being dragged into court by her hair. After this humiliation Draupadi swore that she will not tie her hair until it is bathed with blood of Dushasana. Bhima, who could no longer watch Draupadi's insult in silence, rose up. He vowed to rip Dussasana's arms off his body, with which he had dragged Draupadi by her hair and had tried to disrobe her. He further vowed to tear open Dussasana's chest in battle and drink his blood. Bhima also exclaimed that if he could not fulfill his oath, then he would not meet his ancestors in heaven."

Bhima cut off Dushasana's head and drank his blood, just as he had predicted that he would do when the son of the blind maharaja had first defiled his queen. YAY! 

Wow, there is just so much blood and gore! Arjuna keeps taking off everyone of his foes head's with his arrows! OUCH!

Ashwatthaman slays Draupadi's sleeping children. :(

They all die. The end. 

Yudhishthira becomes a celestial and is rejoined with his brothers and Draupadi in afterlife. So sad, indeed. 

Bibliography: Public domain Mahabharata, Part D