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About the Episode

Draupadi Swyamvara was immediately followed by a violent battle started by those Kings who felt angered that a Brahman won the Swyamvara. They wanted to throw Draupadi in fire and destroy Drupad and his sons. To defend his would be wife and her family, rose Arjuna and his brother Bhimasen.  This episode covers that epic battle which is generally ignored by most recitation, lest truth may damage the reputation of a great warrior.

For the details of the authentic references used in this episode please head to our blog page on The Mahabharata Project website.

About the Series

Episodes in The Mahabharata Project

1. TMP01 ---The Endless Journey --- Begining and the milestones

2. TMP02---Draupadi's Swyamvara Part 1 --- Did Draupadi forbid Karna from Participation? 

3. TMP03---Draupadi's Swaymvara Part 2 --- Arjuna Karna Battle <--- You are Here

Also available in Hindi

About the Episode

• Did Draupadi really forbid Karna from participating in the swaymber?
• What does documentary evidence suggest?
• What does cross referencing suggest?
• What is the reason behind this story?

Other Formats in which this story is available

• Hindi Podcast
• Our blog contains the transcript of this episode along with all authentic references used in this episode. You can check it out at The Mahabharata Project Website 

The Other Episodes

1. TMP01 ---The Endless Journey --- Begining and the milestones

2. TMP02---Draupadi's Swyamvara Part 1 --- Did Draupadi forbid Karna from Participation?

3. TMP03---Draupadi's Swaymvara Part 2 --- Arjuna Karna Battle <--- You are Here

The Mahabharata Project (TMP)

The project aims ad de-mythifying the greatest epic that is ever written. Here we are taking important frangments of the great epic and trying to understand it using authentic sources, cross references and circumstantial evidences.

• Check out other Mahabharata Project Stories our our website podcast index.

The Mahabharata Project 

Welcome to Storian's Mahabharat Project. In this series we shall be discussing about Mabharata — The greatest epic ever written in the entire world. We start with the origin of Mahabharata, its compilation and go on to discuss various different sections of Mahabharata in an attempt to weed out interpolation spread through fictions, and TVShows. We shall try to bring out the authentic incidents as defined by ancient texts and narrations.

Episode01  The Origin Story

1. Mahabharata — The Origin      Story

Here we discuss the Origin of the grand epic Mahabharata, its origin, its compilations, narrations and reasons of interpolations. We further discuss the the evolution of the critical edition and conclude by recommending the most trusted sources of Mahabharata. In the links sections, we are including the references of trusted sources of Mahabharat and our channel details.

English Podcast:

English Youtube:

Hindi Postcast:

Hindi Youtube

Official Website: http://mahabharata.storian.in 

Other Episodes

1. TMP01 ---The Endless Journey --- Begining and the milestones  <--- You are Here

2. TMP02---Draupadi's Swyamvara Part 1 --- Did Draupadi forbid Karna from Participation?

3. TMP03---Draupadi's Swaymvara Part 2 --- Arjuna Karna Battle 

Important Reference

The Book series by the Author : The Accursed God (The Lost Epic Book 1) https://thelostepic.com

The Mahabharata box set Paperback (Bibek Debroy translation of BORI Mahabharata) https://amzn.to/2Dod6EA

Mahabharata by Rajgopalachari https://amzn.to/2W5V0hc

Gita Press Sanskirt-Hindi Mahabahrata based on Neelkantha Mahabharata and BORI

• Part 1: https://amzn.to/3fjPH5r
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• Part 5: https://amzn.to/2Of4HWo
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Mahabharata by Kisari Mohan Ganguli : https://amzn.to/3gMaPkV

Online Resource

Kisari Mohan Ganguli :

• https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/MahabharataOfVyasa-EnglishTranslationByKMGanguli.pdf
• https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/

BORI Mahabharata (Sanskrit)

• https://sanskritdocuments.org/mirrors/mahabharata/mahabharata-bori.html

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