Mahabharat- The Epic: Sources, Variations, Discuss Here Only - Page 25

Originally posted by: najma123

Idk if this discussion happened here or not but since a lot of you know quite a bit about the epic, I have a doubt.

There's a story about Janmayeya's snake sacrifice and how Vaishampayena narrated the Mahabharat then etc. I read somewhere that there was one more person, a disciple of Vyas perhaps, I am not sure, who narrated the epic slightly favouring the Kauravas or from their perspective. I think his name started with J. I can't remember.

But only one part of the epic is available. Can someone give me some website regarding this story ?

Here's a blog article for this:

So in the end, we only have what many people thought about what Ugrasharava Souti thought about what Vaishampayana wrote based on what Vyasa told... Some hours ago, I read that there exists a manuscript of MBh that lacked Virata Parva and Anushasana Parva. It is somewhere in Austria. It could be the answer to Debroy's claim that the original war was for cattle. But we still don't know if incidents of Virata parva is a part of other parvas in this particular manuscript. Anyhow I always regarded it to be a later addition. It seems to me that too many Elena Ferrantes have written this book together.

@Brahmaputra - Perhaps, you are referring to the Spitzer Manuscript? It is not a "version" of Mbh but a Parva summary. It lists the Parvas of Mbh. Virat Parva is believed to have had a different name/originally part of Vana Parva, and not necessarily interpolation.

@amritat - oh yes. That one whatever it is. Thanks. I am too old to remember these names.😆 And I couldn't care less since I started to lose my interest in MBh. What is the point, I often think... Is it worth spending all the time for these people who no one surely knew whether existed...🤣

Isn't Jaimini's mahabharata the one that has Vrishketu's character?

Originally posted by: SweetRogue

Isn't Jaimini's mahabharata the one that has Vrishketu's character?

I was reading about Nal Damyanti story in Van parv. Why was that story narrated to yudhisthir. It's similar story of husband staking wife in gambling? Is there any significance, I read that draupadi got inspired by Damyanti to be dutiful wife inspite of whole gambling thing how Damyanti supported her husband n all..

Originally posted by: riti4u

I was reading about Nal Damyanti story in Van parv. Why was that story narrated to yudhisthir. It's similar story of husband staking wife in gambling? Is there any significance, I read that draupadi got inspired by Damyanti to be dutiful wife inspite of whole gambling thing how Damyanti supported her husband n all..

Interestingly draupadi was so inspired by her that she kept same name sairandhri which Damyanti kept when she was disguised as a maid I think in some kingdom..

Originally posted by: riti4u

Interestingly draupadi was so inspired by her that she kept same name sairandhri which Damyanti kept when she was disguised as a maid I think in some kingdom..