Epics

Following the Round-About: Arjuna is central to the Indian Epic, Mahabharata. He is known as a Pandava brother and the victor of Draupadi, winning her in the contest of her Swayamvara.  The readings of me evenings landed me into the pool of Arjuna's charioteers and I found that to be epically interesting.  Arjuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna One of his charioteers was Krishna, the god, who could not directly intervene in the war. Krishna, having favored the Pandavas and wished to have his way, knew that helping them the most meant that he could influence Dharma via steering the chariot of Arjuna.  The charioteers for these warriors of the epics were crucial to the success or failure of the battle. e saw in the Mahabharata that something as simple as a wheel getting stuck in the mud could mean victory or death for a rival.  Bibliography: Traveling through Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna

Palace of Illusions: (2) So, I am at the part of the book where Draupadi talks of her husband's extra wives. This is particularly fascinating for me because I never could understand how a woman could adhere to the polygamy of a spouse, where the wife was meant to stay monogamous. That just seems ridiculous a notion, and completely disrespectful.  Draupadi and Husbands https://www.quora.com/If-some-groups-advocate-men-having- multiple-wives-are-there-women-who-have-multiple-husbands What Draupadi explains is her large tantrums in opposition to her husbands taking new wives, though she notes in secrecy that her jealousies were largely farce, because she knew realistically that she couldn't expect her husbands to be celibate in the years that she was required to bed her other husbands. Wow, what a concept!  Bibliography: Palace of Illusions, Chitra Divakaruni