Reading Notes: Mahabharatha - Karmic Revolution, Part A


  • What if Queen Ganga decided not to drown their children, but instead made them denizens of the river? Since she herself is the Goddess of a river, then that adds a new twist to the story 
  • One possible plot twist could be making the story of Devavrata similar to that of Karna, in which he fights against his own kin, Shantanu, bringing interesting parallels/foreshadowing 
  • The story of Shantanu and the fisherman's wife could be twisted into a story of a "test" for Shantanu
  • A thought question: what if Devavrata never took the vow of celibacy that made him become Bhishma? What if he just chose to subdue the fisherman?
  • A potential story line could also be one in which Amba and her two sisters fight back against Bhishma, or agree to his commands with the goal of usurping all the power for themselves
    • Amba also goes to Parushurama - another avatar of Vishnu - to resolve her issue with Bhishma 
  • I could also write a story from the perspective of Vyas, the loyal son of Satyavati
  • Storyline: Ambika gives birth to Dhritarashtra, Ambalika gives birth to Pandu, servant girl gave birth to Vidura
  • The Epified series makes it seem like there was a rivalry between Pandu and Dhritarashtra, even though other versions say they treated each other like brothers...

An image of Dhritarashtra with his to-be wife, Gandhari. Source


Bibliography: Mahabharatha by Epified, Link to Part A

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