i read the mahabharath as a teen ager , over 60 years ago , i still think it the best piece of literature ever , but if a king was allowed to gamble and looser win his kingdom those days , the why all those battles. simply play dice and avoid all those loss of lives .something does not make sense to me , all those nobles present there did not intervene dharamraj from gambling away his kingdom and wife . there must have been limitations to what a king place as stakes. i understand it was a friendly game of dice that went out of control , in the presence of bhisam ,, kul guru kripa chariya, guru drona acahariya , mahatma vidhur and the blind king ?? yet no 1 stopped them , also the disrobing of draupadhi , what a shamefull act by todays standards . i know the standards were different then , but it is still beyond me !!!!
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Hare Krishna!
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Hare Krishna! Bhishma the Great
i read the mahabharath as a teen ager , over 60 years ago , i still think it the best piece of literature ever , but if a king was allowed to gamble and looser win his kingdom those days , the why all those battles. simply play dice and avoid all those loss of lives .something does not make sense to me , all those nobles present there did not intervene dharamraj from gambling away his kingdom and wife . there must have been limitations to what a king place as stakes. i understand it was a friendly game of dice that went out of control , in the presence of bhisam ,, kul guru kripa chariya, guru drona acahariya , mahatma vidhur and the blind king ?? yet no 1 stopped them , also the disrobing of draupadhi , what a shamefull act by todays standards . i know the standards were different then , but it is still beyond me !!!!
that was cheating of Shakuni and Duryodhan , Karna , it was not as usual