Mahabharata Question
Friday, 25. July 2008 - 10:20 AM
For those of you who are generally pessimistic about the political scene in India, I have some good news. The state of India in the period described in the Mahabharata was to put it mildly, catastrophic.
Explain how/why.
25. July 2008 - 4:06 PM
Just heard about the bomb blasts in Bangalore. Hope you are ok as well as others
25. July 2008 - 9:17 PM
Niketan,
I’m ok but am currently not in Bangalore. Checked with my folks, they are all doing fine. Thanks for the concern!
26. July 2008 - 10:41 AM
OK. Let me try. Mahabharat period concerned a civil war/intra-Indian degeneration. There were no foreign controllers. In contrast, our current state is due to 800 years of an imposed foreign colonialism by much lesser “civilizations”. It is much harder to recover from rot from within than to throw off a foreign yoke.
26. July 2008 - 11:40 AM
Kishkindhaa,
That’s one way of looking at it but not quite what I have in mind.
27. July 2008 - 11:12 AM
let me venture a guess:
A blind powerless king,
an worthy prince-in-waiting,
a foreigner (shakuni) controlling the strings of the kingdom,
a rightful king kept out of power through machinations.
27. July 2008 - 11:17 AM
the second point should be:
an unworthy prince is King-in-waiting,