War was on the verge of breaking lose, and both sides of the
army were beginning to gather on the field. Arjun the leader of the Pandav army
did not want war with his family and friends so he decided to send an emissary
to talk to the Kauravs. Arjun picked the reincarnation of Vishnu to go and
speak behalf of him and try to stop the war. Even Krishna wanted peace so it
was wise to send Krishna as he can be persuading. Duryodhana finds out about
this emissary and calls on his general to plan a plot in order to capture
Krishna.
Krishna reaches Hastinapur, where he approaches the king to
see if he can talk to him and convince him not to have the war. The king was
almost convinced but Duryodhana decided to walk in right before the king was
about to agree to Krishna and ruins everything. Duryodhana was very egotistical
and prideful and insanely jealous of the Pandavs. All Duryodhana wanted to do
was get his revenge and kill all the Pandavs, so he interferes between the king
and Krishna’s conversation and rejects Krishna’s offer. Krishna smiles and said
okay and warned the Kauravs of the outcome of this war but Duryodhana paid no
heed thinking he can easily defeat the Pandavs especially after capturing Krishna.
Duryodhana signaled his general who was standing in the
corner and called for his soldiers to come and capture Krishna. All the guards
and soldiers in the grand courtroom began to run toward Krishna with their
weapons pointed at Krishna. Everyone was shocked and Duryodhana was smiling
evilly. Krishna remained calmed and told Duryodhana not to do this, as it was
pointless since he was the reincarnation of Vishnu and had awesome power. Duryodhana
once again did not listen to Krishna’s words leaving Krishna with no choice.
Krishna closes his eyes and the next thing everyone saw was a huge glowing
Krishna standing in the middle of courtroom.
His arms were readied with weapons and with one swipe he took out all
the guards and soldiers. Krishna then turns to Duryodhana and talks in his deep
loud godly voice and tells him that he will regret this and starts walking
toward the door. As he walked towards the door Krishna returned to normal size
and glowing stopped. Duryodhana and the king looked at each and trembled at
what they had just witnessed in front of them and now regretted what they had
done.
Author’s Note:
I wanted to retell the story of Krishna showing his godly form because I thought it was a cool moment. He also showed his godly form on the battle field too but that I thought wouldn’t be as dramatic because that was his second time and no one would’ve been as surprised. I wanted to add a little detail also and show that the Kauravs were scared after that point too.
I wanted to retell the story of Krishna showing his godly form because I thought it was a cool moment. He also showed his godly form on the battle field too but that I thought wouldn’t be as dramatic because that was his second time and no one would’ve been as surprised. I wanted to add a little detail also and show that the Kauravs were scared after that point too.
- Narayan, R. K. (1978). The Mahabharata.
I was only able to read the reading guides this week so I think your storytelling post this week helped me understand a part of the book in more detail than the guide went into. I like how you are able to add in parts of the story that would help to understand the storyline up to this point. For example, telling the reader the motivation behind Duryodhana's actions in hating the Pandas brothers. Also, I am glad you told a full story from the book rather than just the part of Krishna showing his Godly form, it helps me to understand the significance so great work!
ReplyDeleteHey Soham! You did a great job re-writing this story. I really enjoyed the part of where Krishna takes on all the guards and soldiers. It was quite foolish of Duryodhana to not listen to Krishna and his warning. I also liked how you mentioned that Krishna was Vishnu’s reincarnation. That was a great detail, that I am sure that not all there readers are aware of.
ReplyDeleteHey Soham, you did a great job retelling this story from the epic. I enjoyed reading the details and how descriptive you were regarding the whole scene. I liked how you chose to highlight what Krishna thought and the whole scene made a lot more sense than the book. I love the picture you chose as well. Good job with this!
ReplyDeleteOkay wow. Huge block of text without any paragraph breaks. That’s one of my biggest pet peeves. I’m going to go ahead and say right now that I didn’t read your story because of this issue. I’ve read a lot of stories that have had this same issue, and I hate it. Please utilize paragraph breaks, because it makes everything less obnoxious to read.
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