Tales of Humour

Maha Mrityunjay It’s a mantra that is said to rejuvenate, bestow health & wealth. A long life, peace, prosperity, contentment & immortality are promised to the one who recites these mantras. The chanting of this mantra is said to create a powerful protective shield which wards off all evils. And is said to protect the…

The only one who managed to escape from the fray at Janasthana was a rakshasa called Akampana. Seeing that it was a lost cause, he had hidden himself behind a tree and watched all his friends falling. At last he returned post haste to Ravana’s capital, on the island of Lanka and reported the whole…

The Upanishads are among the world’s most influential creative works. Not only did they play a large part in shaping Hinduism as it is today, but the debates that they helped to initiate also influenced, either directly or by reaction, the development of the other South Asian religious traditions, including Buddhism. In the last two…

As the rift between the Pandavas and Kauravas widened, the destruction of the Pandavas became Duryodhana’s sole obsession. In his uncle, Shakuni, he found an ideal tactician to achieve this goal. Together, they devised a strategy to entice Yudhishthira to a game of dice. Yudhishthira, being no match for Shakuni’s mastery over the dice, predictably…

Jayadratha is one of the most despicable characters to be found in the Mahabharata. He terrorised the helpless and cowered before the mighty. The encounter between him and Arjuna, the valiant Pandava, described in the Jayadratha-Vadha Parva (a sub-section of the Drona Parva of Mahabharata), makes absorbing reading. Jayadratha was responsible for the death of…

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