Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata, Part B
This is from the public domain edition of the Mahabharata, by Vyasa . Because I missed this part of the reading last week, I am making it up now. The House of Fire Not sure how well thought out the plan was to soak a palace in oil. It would be pretty obvious, I think. Everything would be slippery, there would be an oily smell in the air... Also, how convenient was it that there happened to be a woman with five sons that came by? Poor woman though. Burned alive in her sleep. At least they died with full stomachs. Bhima and Hidimba Ah! A rakshasi who falls in love with Bhima and refuses to kill him. It's like the plot of one of my stories, Savanad , but in my story, Savanad is a rakshasa who wants a human female as a mate. But still, I think it would be cool to explore this possibility further - certain subsets of beings that defy the expectations of their own race. It IS possible for a rakshasa to be good. There's nothing that stops them from transforming into a human...