Reading Notes: Mahabharata, Part C

 

Image source: Arjuna and Krishna

Reading Notes:

• Yudhishthira was tested by his father-Yama- and he passed the test.
• Virata offered his daughter Uttari in marriage to Arjuna, but Arjuna proposed that his son, Abhimanyu, marry her.
• Iravan (Arjuna's son) was to be sacrificed to Kali. Krishna, as Mohini, married him a day before (as Iravan did not want to die a bachelor) and wept for her dead husband the next day.
• Karna promised Kunti that he would only fight Arjuna and would spare her other sons so that in the end, she would still have 5 sons. 
• Abhimanyu died trapped inside the maze alone. He knew how to break the maze but not how to get out. 

Source: Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata by Laura Gibbs