Reading Diary B: Kincaid Mahabharata

-The Pandava brothers have finally spent all twelve years of exile when they come to the year of disguise. They plan to spend this year in the court of King Virata.
-King Virata's daughter ends up marrying the son of Arjuna.
-Yudhishthira disguises himself as a gambler because of his past, Bhima disguises himself as a cook, Nakula works in the stables, Sahadeva is a cow-herd, and Arjuna is disguised as a dancing teacher.
-Draupadi is disguised as the queen's beautiful maid.
-Kichaka tries to rape the beautiful maid and Bhima promises to avenge Draupadi.
-Bhima waits one night for Kichaka and crushes him to death (exactly how does he go about crushing him to death?).
-Draupadi claims that she has a celestial husband and this gets her off the hook for the death of the queen's brother??
-The Pandavas reveal their true identities to King Virata at the end of their exile. This is also when Arjuna's son marries the princess.
-Duryodhana wants to keep the brothers in the forest, so he tries to convince King Dhritarashtra to continue their exile for 12 more years.
-At the end of the Mahabharata, the Bharatas are reunited once again.
-Yudhishthira has a loyal hunting dog that accompanies him and Indra takes him and the dog up to heaven. However, his siblings are down in Hell. He must renounce heaven in order to be with them and so he does. Wow, true loyalty. This is also a test from Indra though. Because of Yudhishthira's choice to be with all of them, they are all allowed to go to heaven with him now.

("Yudhishthira with a dog as a chariot from heaven arrive" from Wikipedia Commons)

Kincaid Mahabharata