S01E05

Mahabharata Part 1

• 11:00 • Doordarshan National

• 1988-12-11

When the fiery Pandavani performer Teejan Bai from Chhattisgarh, holding aloft an Ektara and alterna... Voir plus When the fiery Pandavani performer Teejan Bai from Chhattisgarh, holding aloft an Ektara and alternating verse with prose describes the dialogue between the Pandava King Pandu and Queen Kunti, she is reciting familiar episodes from the Mahabharata. Indeed the Ramayana and Mahabharata were the oldest names familiar to Nehru from his earliest childhood. His mother and other ladies told him stories from the epics; taking him every year to the popular open-air performances where the Ramayana story was enacted as Ramlila and vast crowds to witness it. These narratives and shows represented the typical Indian method of catering for various audiences, from the highest intellectual to the simple unread and untaught villager. Nehru opines that the Ramayana was an epic poem with a certain unity of treatment, while the Mahabharata was a vast and miscellaneous collection of ancient lore. Both must have taken shape in the pre-Buddhist period, though additions were no doubt made later. The Mahabharata eventually acquired 100,000 Shlokas (verses)! Teejan Bai takes forward the narrative by donning roles of Kunti and Madri, who are anticipating their five mighty sons. Gambling games were common in the past-Vedic times and the dramatic narrative describes the royal bout of dice, where the eldest Pandava prince Yudhishtira plays against the devious Kauravas and loses. He forfeits his money, jewelery, kingdom, weapons and horses, and even four brothers and himself, pawning quite unjustly wife Draupadi. The infamous Kauravas are seen attempting to disrobe Draupadi in the Pandavani performance, which leads to Bhima's resolve to wreak vengly killing violently the Kaurava brothers, Duryodhana and Dusshasana, in the eventuality of war. The Pandavas are banished of the forest and, on return, Krishna acts as an earnest plenipotentiary to prevent war, but without success. The inevitable battle ensues, but since only the killing of relatives and friends is foreseen, Arjuna wonders what the wh

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