Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Reading Notes: the Adventures of Prince Arjuna, Part A

For this this week's reading notes, I decided to stick to the story of Prince Arjuna. I plan on making a story in terms to this story, which sparked my interest. In the Mahabharata reading guide, the story titles "The Adventures of Prince Arjuna" tells of a Arjuna, son of Pandu and Kunti. He was a prince of the Elephant city. The location of the plot starts at the royal city of Hastinapura, Duryodhana. The Pandavas bring problems to the royal city and the King. Arjuna finds himself in a situation where he enters Draupadi's room, which causes him to go to exile.  A water-nymph named Ulupi takes Arjuna to the underwater land and marries him. This granted Arjuna with a special gift that allowed him to defeat a mighty alligator, who was an ex nymph. This curse was broken by Arjuna when he defeated the cursed alligators. Arjuna is challenged once again in life as he dreams of Agni, a fire-god who tells him to burn the Khandava forest and to destroy the nagas. The nagas are protected by Indra. Arjuna is also the son of Indra. As Arjuna heads to destroy this forest and the nagas, the god Indra comes to do his job and save the nagas by releasing rain from the clouds. 

This plot shows great marks of improvement. While reading this original story, i was able to think of ideas to make a new revised story for my website, which is perfect. 


Bibliography: Mahabharata, The Adventure of Prince Arjuna


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