my summary of book one of the hindu epic named Mahabharata
i summarize first over 130 pages plus another 90 and 94 pages.
barta summary
intro: as i reading, i see several important issues, 1, self praise seem bad. 2, consider the foundation of hind is veda, four, so this book is against at least 2=two fundations of hindu. claiming to be better or even fifth veda, in western thout that is blasphemy. also harming animals, if b true, veda false and if veda correct this unreliable. b teaches the most important virtue is not "to harm any creature" against veda that teaches to kill and cook a horse and other examples. b itself contains killing animals and so does ramayana. if veda true to kill and cook a horse, as taut by divine brahma of five faces, siva cut offhis fifth, so four faces taut four vedas of hymns, as divine wisdom and desire, than b internally "from the source of mind of dwaip" is false.
first book "adi parva" contains 236 sections. the word adi means first. it has subdivision: the beginning of adi=first parva from 18 parvas has sections "paushya" and puloma etc.
the first section is named internally anuk' with the "people and dieties coming out from egg". also self praise of the book. it claims about itself that dwaip's ideas were written by divine and "omniscient" ganesa, [we know from elsewhere legend he was family son of siva, kuz siva wife mde him from paste] claims that the book is so powerful that reading some "a foot" of it is such virtue that it destroys sins. from the sin of killing an embryo... westerners moan... to "even" murdering a brahma [from all murders worst to murder a sage] reading a "foot" of the bharta destroys the sin. if true no need to go to the place of pain in book 18.
also anuk tells: ugra, surname sauti came to a forest. the sages wanted to hear the bharta that vaisam' had recited [that section starts on page 120 section 61]. krishna dwaipanya meaning born on isle, also called title vyasa, thout of these ideas in bharta and taut to one son. he wanted to teach more people so brahma advised ganesa should write. "omniscient" ganesa came and agreed to write. that is the main summary beside self praise. the start of life on our world came oyut from egg as above. the important idea in hindu that the matter in our world STARTED from the potential from the dissolved previous world... without beginning, in contrast to christian bible world has a beginning.
also important for continuity, in anuk' dwaip had a son pandu. dwaip told vaisam to recite it at the snake sacrifice [killing snakes in fire by king jan'] this idea will be repeated with added detail in later book. king pandu had sons. one named ARJUNA a main one in book 6 called part called gita.
pandu hunted and killed a deer, then saw it was mating with a doe. he died so gods helpd grow the sons. later the sons of pandu went to live with relatives.
the akun breifly tells the story told later of the jealousy of dury' after the pndavas were kings over great area and wealth. it breifly says yudhish will lose his kingdom at a game of dice but this and other parts will be told in later sections. when they returned from exile duryo refused to return the kingdom despite the number of years he specified this led to the war, described from book 6 on. kind dhrish' sent his sons to bttle they all died. dhrish sad but sanjaya [or sauti?] told him they deserved death for greed and deception.
self praise this book is virtue that destroys sins even the worst murder of a sage. even part of "this section" or the moon "refers to praise this book is like the gentle mooon light that widens the flower" destroys sins.
note; lotus eye refers to leaf petal of lotus... so shape. self praise claims to be more imporatnt than vedas. as above this is a problem if veda from divine.
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next part sangra' contains the "contents" internally described as the section with contents. it summarized in 12 pages from 18 books, other sections of first book are named paushya, puloma and more. "the adi=first book contains paushya and puloma." also in sang' the story of place of battle between pand' against kuru, was a place of blood. parus killed many of the royal tribe many times and made lakes of blood. the area arond the lakes is called saman' the place of the great battle that occurred and will be told in later books in this epic.
also tells the number of foot soldiers and beasts in that battle. great virtue to read it same as giving gold hornd cows to a sage. self praise.
this second section contains twelve pages of summary of other 18 books, and of sections of first book.
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paushya, third section, about "utanka". his story: he was a student of teacher named veda. after studying he wanted to give a gift to veda. veda's wife wanteed the ear rings of a certain queen. he went to the palace of "paushya" and got them from the queen. a snake stole them so he used celestial weapon to dig underground. he blew into a celestial horse and the fire threatened the snake who returned the earings. then he rode that celestial horse to his teacher and gave the ear rings.
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pauloma=puloma story of "sons of bhrigu". bhrigu's wife was "puloma." a demon grabd her kuz her father betrothedd her to him. it brout her to agni who admitted "you were first." when it flew up her child "dropped out" and shined this killed the demon who fell and turned to ash. they named bhrigus son "chyavan" meaning falling. his descendant named ruru loved a lady. a snake bit her. he gave half his life to the lady he loved. that bite is the reason he hated snakes. this section praises as "most important virtue not to harm any creature" we already know from veda this is wrong so this book is not a reliable source how can we believe it that reading it destroys sins? did visnu ever offer that deal? similarly the reward of warrior claimed to enjoy for doing war. in a source known to be flawed.
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astika section about "garuda" a snake. the celestial horse steed would be born so a snake lady wagered about its color. she demanded her sons to cheat. some agreed but others refused so she cursed them to burn to death. garuda the snake was born to the lady who lost the wager. he wanted to free mom he got nectar and gave it to free mom.
"astika" was the son of snake. a snake tried to cancel mom's curse by giving his sister snake to a human sage to wed. they wed. their son "astika" will save the snakes.
many family births are listed in this section and in following section called samb'. my reading reached this list of births until page 130. many sections so no more numbers only name.
SAMB section in book one, summary from section two.
story of king BHARATA bharata [founder of bharat's race and dynasty the root of modern india hence the name of this epic and the local name of the country]. king b had adventures told in this section. more family lists.vasus went up to heaven.
bhishma left royalty and lived as brahma [violating the caste system demanded by krishna in book 6]. he protected [page 20 in section 2 sang] chitra' until chitra's death. bhishma then protected vichit'his own younger brother who was king. the diety dharma was born among men kuz cursed. [hindu dieties need "curing" and dont know secrets and fear curses and curses affect them so not compete with western god. still god kuz "source" of good and more powerful than man yet some wizard sages also have powers while men.]
more lists of births. duryu was jealous of the kingdoms and wealth that the sons of pandu had. he sent them to a palace of lac. they scheemed to harm arjuna and his brothers but vidura's wisom saved them. they dug a hole from the lac palace and burnt it.[more details in section 7?] they escaped and their fire killed the spy.
next summary meeting HIDIMBA
second project: last 94 pages [no page number] from 14 til end
BOOK 14 "fourteenth aswam" (marutta searj?)
sons of pandu found gold , a weapon burnt parik but krishna revived, arjuna fout battles, kuz princes stole the horse. arjuna met vabhru, mongoose at horse sacrifice [veda cooked horse so not virtue "non violence to any creature" in bhart elsewhere] 103 sections with 3320 verses.
15 "fifteenth asram" king dhrit after his heirs died in war, left his throne empty, going to forest. he saw the spirits of his dead sons, with help of a "sage" wizard named dwaip. vidura brother of arjuna, "most meritorious state" reaching "high success". refer to book 18. narada told yudhi the story of vrishni death, 42 sections 1506 verses. who chose the summary? bharta itself section 2 in longer words.
16 "maushala" a sage wizard cursed some soldiers. when inebriated and their minds impaired they killed each other. one used a sword and the others fout until krishna grabd grass and threw it becoming iron with thunder. the other soldiers grabd grass and threw at eacch other also became iron with thunder "by sages curse". krishna after killing many also died. arjuna sad for deaths. [despite krishna teaching in book 6]. funeral and "burnt corpse" of krishna and bodies. soldiers stole many ladies and arjuna was weak could not stop even with his celestial weapons including bow called gandiva. felt verey sad. dwaip advised to change his style of life. this "sixteenth maushala" small section.
17 prastha "maha-prastha seventeenth". the journey. the sons of pandu left their thrones. arjuna gave his to a relative. they journeyd til a red sea. there agni met them and on the sea shore and asked for the celestial bow. arjuna returnd it. they used yoga to move [perhaps fly over mountains based on context] until each died, including arjuna except yudhi. this is "seventeenth maha prastha". short around 12 pages volume no page numbers here. no more arjuna activity after this same as know krishna after krishna died.
18 final "svarga" about the celestial realm after death. a celestial car flew down and yudhi still alive in body can fly to celestial realm. [inspired later story of elija except elija lost body and coat fell from fire]. he felt kindness to loyal dog and wanted to take it with him up "ascend". the gods argued until yudhi showed he would not leave the dog. it uncovered it was a god, named dharma of virtue. then yudhi "ascended" to celestial realm. he saw the evil doers on throne with joy and "plenty" and complained. the gods explained that those warriors "obeyd the contract" died in war fulfilling the family obligatopn of warrior so that deserved reward. yudhi was sad and wanted to see arjuna. they led him to place of suffering heat fire sting of bees and sharp leaves. he heard arjuna and wanted to stay in pain-place with his frends since he was worthy and caused less suffering while there. the gods came and explained the deception arjuna not there just a test. now yudhi left body by entering celestial river, as above the car brout body, went to a place of "plenty" based on his virtue and merit and the fulfillment of his warrior family. he lived with "joy" so ends the 18 parva and the mahabharta. end of summary
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