Dr. KRS Murthy's Writing
Irony of vyaasa's life and his great poetry: mahaabhaarata vyaasa's life story, and the story of mahaabhaarata as told by him as a great poetry still the best ever after numerous centuries, is a story of irony of situations for vyaasa the great poet, and also the story of many generations depicted in his story in poetry of 18 chapters, containing thousands of characters, kings and royal families, the extraordinary women, and in situations finally ending in a tragedy with almost every one dying in the war, with no male survivor in their youth, and ending in women, old men and children, with only one little baby of deceased abhumanyu called “pareekshita” left to carry on the ominous burden of the dynasty. Names of People and Places in Legendary Sanskrit Literature Both Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as much of poraaNa, other literature, both prose, and poetry, have metaphorical names for people and places chosen to really mean the characters created and fictionalized by the po...