Week 14: Reading Diary B

The Pandavas and Dhitrashtra go and visit Bhishma, who has the power to choose his time of death. Bhishma isn't angered at the Pandavas at all and talks to Krishna and passes away. Yudhisthira is in depression due to the death, he brings about. When sleeping, he sees that he is able to go to heaven, but finds his brothers and Draupadi in hell and he curses the gods. He wakes up from that dream back in Kurukshetra and so he goes on with the coronation ceremony. Parikshetra, Arjuna's and Uttara's son, is born and is revived by Krishna. Arjuna's weapons were destroyed by Agni and the Pandavas and Draupadi abandon the world and head north, leaving Parikshetra as king.

Week 14: Reading Diary A

Duryodhana and Bhima fight, and Bhima defeats Duryodhana and Duryodhana waits for his death at the lake. While waiting he is visited by Ashwatthaman, who he makes the commanding general. Ashwatthaman assembles a night raid and raids the Pandavas camp, and kills most of the people at the camp. Only few people are left on either side after the battle. Krishna and the Pandavas who decided to sleep outside the camp find out and are outraged. Ashwatthaman uses the Brahma mantra to attack Bhima, but Arjuna uses the same mantra to counteract the attack. Dhitrashtra shatter a statue of Bhima thinking he has killed his son's killer.