Pandu Essays

  • Deliverance of Poetic Justice in Vyasa's Mahabharata

    2131 Words  | 5 Pages

    INTRODUCTION: - Translations have always been of paramount importance since the acceptance of history, archaeology and fields alike as individual subjects. The subjects that work in the present trying to unravel the mysterious happenings of the past often need to go through the literature of the era concerned as literature always has been the true mirror to society. The literature of any civilization is a transcriber of the happenings and experiences of contemporary people into the word written

  • Essay On Mahabharata

    795 Words  | 2 Pages

    Pandavas(Sons of Pandu). Shantanu (king of Hastinapur) was married to Ganga.They gave birth to Devavrat (also known as Bheesma . He promised his father that he will not fight for the throne and his step brothers will become the king.Shantanu also married Satyavati and gave birth to two sons(Chitrangada and Vichitravirya).Chitrangada died before marriage and Vichitravirya married Ambika and Ambalika. Ambika gave birth to Dhritrashtra who was blind and Ambalika gave birth to Pandu who was a weakling

  • The Mahabharata

    2003 Words  | 5 Pages

    Imagine a land with lush jungles blooming fruit, flowers, and weeds providing a cool shade from the scolding sun and calming breeze flowing from the turbulent Ganges River. The Ganges River you say? Your mind start churning like a rusted bicycle belonging to adult who long ago stop greasing the gears as he transitioned out of a child, trying to remember your countless spoonfuls of geography from K-12 you realize I am talking about northern India and henceforth this is where our epic The Mahabharata

  • Connection between Dharma and Destiny: Mahabharata

    1306 Words  | 3 Pages

    hero is Yudhishthira, the leader of the Pandavas and son of Dharma. Pandavas consist of him and 4 of his younger brothers: Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. All of the Pandavas were born through a boon that was given to Pandu’s first wife Kunti. Pandu was cursed after he accidently killed a sage and his wife that he would die is he had intercourse, so he couldn’t have children. Kunti had a boon to have kids from different gods, which she gave the boon of two kids to Pandu’s second wife Madri. Kunti

  • Social Issues in Hinduism

    1780 Words  | 4 Pages

    Hinduism is known as a diverse religion with its numerous traditions and customs. Hinduism accepts and gives an absolute freedom of beliefs and worships to the devotees. It bonds the whole world as one single family that is built upon one truth, and therefore do not discriminate anyone. However, there are some social issues that Hinduism accepts which have encountered criticisms from the Hindu community along with the external world. Few of the prominent issues include caste system, Sati practice

  • Essay On Native Language Affect English Language

    1191 Words  | 3 Pages

    Native language can also affect the acquisition of word formation of English negatively. It is commonly term as interference of the first language. According to Dulay, Burt, and Krashen (1982), interference is an automatic transfer, due to habit, of the surface structure of the first language onto the surface of the target language. Discussions on the extent of word formation in English affecting native speaker of Malay negatively will specifically touch on plurality, mainly in terms of affixes and

  • The Work and Life Balance

    1949 Words  | 4 Pages

    Introduction Since the end of hunting and fruit gathering as the only source of survival and emergence of animal rearing and agriculture work started to emerge as separate from life. It emerged as a activity in which people engaged themselves so that they can earn enough food and meat to eat and share with family, friends and the tribes men. It was a point of separation of livelihood from job. A man was working till the end of the day to spend his after work hours at leisure. It was a great source

  • The Game Of Dicing In Mahabarat The Book Of Mahabharata

    1411 Words  | 3 Pages

    Pandavas for thirteen years. The Game of dicing The game of dicing in the second book of ‘sabhaparva’ of the great Sanskrit epic Mahabharata is a significant episode and a pivotal point to the plot of the narrative.Yudhisthara, the eldest of the Pandu brothers, and a compulsive gambler is challenged to dice game by Duryodhana, eldest of the Kauravas. Duryodhana employs Shakuni , a cheat to throw

  • The Historical Context of The Bhagavad Gita and Its Relation to Indian Religious Doctrines

    2504 Words  | 6 Pages

    theology, its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim "your business is with the deed and not with the result." When Arjuna, the third son of king Pandu (dynasty name: Pandavas) is about to begin a war that became inevitable once his one hundred cousins belonging to the Kaurava dynasty refused to return even a few villages to the five Pandava brothers after their return from enforced exile, he looks