By Devdutt Pattanaik
The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are the twins, Jaya and Vijaya, either whose names suggest ‘victory’. One retains you in Swarga; the opposite increases you into Vaikuntha. In Vaikuntha there's bliss eternally, in Swarga there's excitement for under so long as you deserve.
What is the variation among Jaya and Vijaya? resolve this puzzle and you'll remedy the secret of the Mahabharata. during this captivating retelling of India’s maximum epic, the Mahabharata, initially referred to as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves right into a unmarried narrative plots from the Sanskrit vintage in addition to its many people and local versions, together with the Pandavani of Chattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu, and Yakshagana of Karnataka.
Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings via the writer, the 108 chapters abound with little-known information corresponding to the names of the hundred Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the tales of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan and Barbareek, the Mahabharata model of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana, and the courting of the struggle in line with astronomical information. With readability and ease, the stories during this stylish quantity exhibit the everlasting relevance of the Mahabharata, the complicated and irritating meditation at the human that has formed Indian suggestion for over 3000 years.
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