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18 days. It ended on the 18th night, w/ Ashwatthama, Kripa & Kritavarma massacring the remnants of the Pandava army, including Dhrishtadyumna, Shikhandi & Draupadi's 5 sons. The Pandavas, Krishna & Satyaki were only saved b'cos they happened to spend that night outside that camp.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

18 days. It ended on the 18th night, w/ Ashwatthama, Kripa & Kritavarma massacring the remnants of the Pandava army, including Dhrishtadyumna, Shikhandi & Draupadi's 5 sons. The Pandavas, Krishna & Satyaki were only saved b'cos they happened to spend that night outside that camp.

thanx for the information bhaiyya !!

did duryodhan die before or after the massacre? and there were no battles after that?

also what happened to indraprastha when dharmraj became king? mahabharat mentions that he ruled hastinapur, so does that mean he abandoned indraprastha or did he merge it back into hastinapur? or did the other pandavs rule indraprashta?

i have another question folks !!😳

would ram ji's luv kush and shri krishna's children, like pradyuman, sambha, and bhanu among many others, be considered Gods, since their fathers were Gods, or would they be considered demi gods since Ram ji and Krishna ji came in the form of humans? or were they just simple humans ??

but it doesn't make sense for them to be simple humans because they were the songs of Vishnu bhagwaan !!😕

Originally posted by: -RamSitaKiDasi-

thanx for the information bhaiyya !!

did duryodhan die before or after the massacre? and there were no battles after that?

also what happened to indraprastha when dharmraj became king? mahabharat mentions that he ruled hastinapur, so does that mean he abandoned indraprastha or did he merge it back into hastinapur? or did the other pandavs rule indraprashta?

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

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Thanks !!

I have a question about the mythological interpretation of eclipses.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

I have a question about the mythological interpretation of eclipses.

We know that after the Samudra manthan, when Vishnu beheaded Rahu/Ketu, Rahu, the head, would always try and devour the sun, and since his neck was open, the sun would come out again, and this was what was used to explain solar eclipses.

So my question - are Rahu or Ketu @ all involved in lunar eclipses, or is there some other mythological explanation as to why they happen? This question hit me from something on pg 12 of the DkDM Doubts & discussions about Shiva linked in the previous post, but since this ain't a Shiva question, I posted it here.

if u dont mind my answering ur ques , i can explain u the phenomena th eway my bro explained it to me:

Rahu as per indian mythology is a mythical character that is characterized as a demon with a human head and snake body. It is grouped along with the planets when it comes to getting categorized. This grouping is not arbitrary. Rahu is not a celestial object but is a celestial nodal point.


Let me explain this. The moon's orbit around the earth is in a plane that is slightly tilted against the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. Hence most of the time the moon is slightly away from the line connecting the sun and the earth. That is why every full moon or new moon doesnt form an eclipse. However when the moon happens to be at one of the two nodal points where its orbit cuts the earth-sun plane, and it happens to be a new or full moon, it will come directly in the line connecting the earth and sun and we have an eclipse. Whether this turns out to be a Lunar or Solar eclipse depends on whether the moon is behind or in front of the earth at that time.


Rahu is nothing but one of these two nodal points (Ketu in fact is the other nodal point). One point is when moon is moving from the northern celestial sphere to the southern celestial sphere and the other point is when moon is moving in the opposite direction. Notably mythological Ketu is Rahu's converse image with snake head and human body and rahu is vice versa. Whenever you have an eclipse Indian almanacs show moon and rahu/ketu in the same position which is nothing but moon being at one of the nodal points without which an eclipse cannot happen. Now you know the story behind Rahu gobbling up the sun. This story after all was meant as a way to explain a complex astronomical phenomenon in a simple manner to the general public.

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