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Yagnyaseni Dvikam (Two Verse Hymn)
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Yagnyaseni Dvikam (two verse hymn)
(Verse 1)
Ayi yajñāgnikuṇḍa-samudbhava dīptaśikhāsama-tejamayi, Ghanaghananīrada-śyāmalasundari pañcamahāratha-śaktimayi.
Drupadamahīpati-putri-pavitri sudharmadharātala-rakṣaṇi he,
Jaya jaya he kuruvaṃśa-hutāśani dharma-sañjīvani yājñaseni!
Translation:
O you who arose from the sacrificial fire altar, possessing the blinding radiance of blazing flames, O beautiful one, dark as heavy storm clouds, you are the very life force and power of the five great warriors!
O pure daughter of King Drupada, O protector of the foundations of Dharma on this earth,
Victory, victory to you, O fire that consumed the Kuru dynasty, reviver of Dharma, O Yajnaseni!
(Verse 2)
Kurukulasaṃsadi roṣataraṅgiṇi kṣātrakulāntaka-sūtradhari, Kuṭilamuktālaka-krodhabhayaṅkari māyikamohana-rūpamayi.
Satyasvarūpiṇi dharmasadhāmini pāṇḍavabhāgya-vidhāyini he,
Jaya jaya he kuruvaṃśa-hutāśani dharma-sañjīvani yājñaseni!
Translation:
You were the tidal wave of wrath in the Kuru assembly, the master puppeteer of the Kshatriya clan's utter doom, terrifying in your wrath with your untied curly hair, yet possessing an enchanting, mesmerizing form!
O pure embodiment of truth, the supreme co anchor of Dharma, the sole orchestrator of the Pandavas' destiny,
Victory, victory to you, O fire that consumed the Kuru dynasty, reviver of Dharma, O Yajnaseni!
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u/Astrea____ — 11 days ago
God As The Charioteer, Arjuna and Krishna
u/Astrea____ — 17 days ago
Krishna's lesson on Human endeavour
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Was rereading this part of Udyoga Parva and honestly it just fills you with pure rage on Draupadis behalf.
You expect Yudhishthir to preach peace and virtue. That is just who he is, everyone knew he would jump at any chance to avoid war even if it meant compromising.
But Bheem? The sheer absurdity of Bheem, the one man who took those terrifying blood oaths in front of the entire Kuru sabha, suddenly turning around and begging Krishna to speak softly to Duryodhan, to be ok 'serving' Duryodhann? It was pathetic.
It felt like total surrender.
Imagine being Draupadi sitting right there, listening to the men who already failed to protect your dignity once now looking for any cheap excuse to walk away from avenging it.
Out of all five brothers, only Sahadev had the spine to
look Krishna in the eye and say that even if everyone else chooses peace, he will walk into that battlefield alone and kill Duryodhan with his own hands.
The youngest brother was the only one standing on pure principle while the elder ones were trembling at the thought of war.
Draupadi was most shaken by Bheem. That must have felt like a dagger to the heart.
Bheem was supposed to be her fire, the one husband whose anger matched her own pain, who got her the flowers, who crushed Kichaka for her.
Seeing that exact man suddenly go soft and preach about family harmony was the ultimate betrayal.
Thank god Krishna didnt spare him.
Krishna literally laughs in Bheems face and mocks him, asking if his fire has turned into cold water or if his arms lost their strength.
He reminds Bheem that hiding behind fate and preaching about peace when duty demands action is what weak men do. Human endeavour is everything.
You cannot just call yourself a warrior, abandon your dignity, leave justice to destiny, and call it righteousness.
It makes you realize why Draupadi had to march in right after this, weeping with her hair unbound, basically saying that if her husbands have forgotten how to act like men, her sons and her father will fight for her.
How could the Pandavas, especially Bheem, sit there and preach peace after everything she went through?
Was it just pure hesitation from a war that could engulf them all masked as virtue, or did they acutally think she would just forget what was done to her?
u/Astrea____ — 17 days ago
You Can Absolutely Like Mahabharata Solely For Its Women
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You dont have to worship the Pandavas to love Mahabharat.
And you definitely dont have to make excuses for the Kauravas either.
The Kauravas are cartoonishly rotten to the core.
Pure greed, zero shame, dragging a woman into an open court while the supposedly wise elders develop
sudden selective blindness.
Not even a debate there.
But the Pandavas arent flawless saints either.
Yudhishthir literally gambles away everything for his word(well addiction taking over mid game rather) himself and then as a result his own wife like an object, and the other four greatest warriors on earth just sit there staring at thier toes like scolded schoolboys.
Half the time the men are busy nursing thier fragile egos,
or crying about wanting peace and settling for five villages just to avoid doing thier actual job.
The actual spine of the epic has always been the women.
Take Draupadi. She wasnt some passive victim card used to start a war, she was the literal harbinger of justice.
When the men were ready to swallow thier dignity and sweep humiliation under the rug, she basically had to drag five husbands and an entire empire by its ear to the battlefield.
She survived the absolute worst of patriarchal rot and never folded once.
Look at Amba and Shikhandi.
That is unmatched, pure dedication to payback.
She crossed lifetimes, jumped into fire and returned with a whole new body just to dismantle Bhishma who thought he was untouchable.
Kunti built an entire dynasty out of forest dirt and carried the political plot on her back while the princes were just busy surviving.
Gandhari watched all 100 sons die for thier own stupidity, yet had such terrifying moral authority that her curse shook the Supreme Lord himself.
And Uttara.
A teenage pregnant widow left standing alone in the ashes of Kurukshetra, quietly carrying the entire future of the bloodline while the men wiped each other out.
The men spent 18 parvas giving high level lectures on Dharma, but the women were the ones actually cleaning up thier mess and paying the price.
You can genuinely dislike both sides and read the epic just for them, they are the only ones who never broke.
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u/Astrea____ — 18 days ago
Krishna Vishwaroop
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Art - Krishna Vishwaroop(virat roop) by Tomesetti
u/Astrea____ — 19 days ago
Drauapadi's lamenting to Krishna
Artist - Giampaolo Tomassetti.
Art name - Save My Honour.
u/Astrea____ — 21 days ago