What is the Mahabharata story about ?

It is the largest single literary work in existence.
Originally composed in the ancient language of Sanskrit sometime.

Krishna rode a chariot that was heavily potent and once when Arjun was done with the war, Krishna asked him to get off the chariot first and then he got off. As soon as he got off, the chariot exploded in a huge fireball. That’s when he explained to Arjun why he asked him to get off the chariot first.

Pandu (Father of Pandavas) wished his sons must eat his flesh post death so that all the knowledge may transfer to them which he had collected after so many years. Only Sahadeva ate a piece; the moment he ate he was able to see future but stopped by God. He was a blessed astrologer.

Mahabharat was composed by Maharishi Vedvyas and written by Lord Ganesha with a condition that Maharishi Vedvyas has to continuously speak the shlokas that are to be written without stopping even for once. Then Vedvyas also given a condition that he will speak shlokas with understanding its meaning but Ganesha cannot write them without interpreting them in his mind. So, in this way sometimes in the entire epic Vedvyas speak difficult Shlokas which took time for Ganesha to understand the meaning and meanwhile Vedvyas took rest.

Arjun’s ‘pilgrimage’ for breaking his marital laws with Draupadi earned him three more wives. They were Chitrangada (Manipura), Ulupi (Naga) and Subhadra.

Vedvyas is not a name but a post given to those who had knowledge of Vedas. There were 27 Vedvyas before Krishnadweepayan. And Krishnadweepayan was the 28th Vedvyas, who was given this name because he had a wheatish skin colour like Lord Krishna and he was born on an island.

Arjuna was unable to defend the wives of Krishna from common robbers after Krishna’s departure to Vaikuntha. His bow became heavy and he forgot all his mantras. The 8 main wives committed suicide. The others were kidnapped by robbers.

Strange but true that there are 10 other Gitas that exist like Vyadh Gita, Ashtavakra Gita, Parashar Gita etc. Though Shri Bhagwad Gita is the pure and complete Gita which contains information by Lord Krishna.

IKing Santanu married a strange woman he found by the river. They had many children
and she drowned all of them (I told you she was strange).

Vaishampayan the disciple of Vedvyas first time read Mahabharat in the House of the King Janamejay who was the grandson of Abhimanyu and son of Parikshit. Many sarpyagya was done by him to take the revenge of his father’s death.

Shantanu was the father of Bhishma pitamah, who was married to Ganga. In his next birth Shantanu was king Mahabhish, he went to serve Brahma where he saw Ganga and attracted towards her. Meanwhile Brahma cursed him and said go to hell, due to this in his next birth he was born as King Prateep son Shantanu and married to Ganga but she took a promise from Shantanu that he will never ask question from her. He agreed.

They were blessed by 8 children and first 7 children were drowned by Ganga in to the river, he never asked any question but when Ganga was going to drown her eighth children, he burst with anger and asked her the reason. Then Ganga told him about his previous birth and Lord Brahma’s curse. After that she went away with their 8th child.

There are 33 main Gods according to Dharma Granthas and one of them is Ashtha Vasu who was born as Shantanu and Ganga’s son. Their 8th son was known as Bhishma.

Karna was adopted by Adhiratha (and his wife Radha) who found him by the riverbank after the frightened virgin princess (Kunti) decided to let go of her firstborn and flew him down the river in a basket.

Shantanu’s second marriage was with Nishad’s daughter Satyavati and had two children named Chitrangad and Vichitravirya. Chitrangad died in a battle and then Vichitravirya became king who had married to Kashi’s princess Ambika and Ambalika.

She was afraid that hardly anyone would believe the ‘divine virgin birth’ story. From birth, the child had divine earrings and a vest that would protect him from all dangers, including all kinds of weapons. She prayed to the Sun God to protect their son and lowered the basket into the river.

In Mahabharat, Vidur was the avatar of Yamraj and was a great scholar of Dharma Shatra and Artha Shastra. Due to the curse of Rishi Mandavya’s he had to be born as human.

Only the Kshatriya clan (the warrior class) had this privilege. Adhiratha feared that his son, due to his divine vest & earrings, and a possible superiority in archery over princes, could easily offend the high and mighty in the capital.

Kunti had served Rishi Durvasa in her childhood. He was impressed and gave her a magical mantra of which Kunti could ask any God for a child. So, before marriage she asked Surya Dev for a child and Karna was born.

The royal preceptor to Kuru princes, Dronacharya even insulted Karna for aspiring to learn military arts alongside the royals despite having come from the family of charioteers. Obviously, the young boy was infuriated. He swore to become a disciple of the one who trained Dronacharya himself. On that very day, he was on his way to Parshurama’s abode.

Pandu left his kingdom due to Rishi Kindam’s curse and became sanyasi. Kunti and Madri also started living with them in a forest where by the mantra of Durvasa from Dharmaraj Yudhishthir was born. Similarly, from Vayudeva Bhima and from Indra’s ansh Arjun was born. Kunti had given that mantra to Madri and Sahdev was born.

Pandu left his kingdom due to Rishi Kindam’s curse and became sanyasi. Kunti and Madri also started living with them in a forest where by the mantra of Durvasa from Dharmaraj Yudhishthir was born. Similarly, from Vayudeva Bhima and from Indra’s ansh Arjun was born. Kunti had given that mantra to Madri and Sahdev was born.

Then she kept vessels with ghee for two years and from first vessel Duryodhana was born and on the same day Bhima and then the rest. Dhuryodhana started crying like a Donkey after the birth and due to this vulture and crows started making noise. Vidhur told Dhritshashtra to kill Duryodhana as he will destroy his family but he could not do it in love for his child. Duryodhana’s real name was Suyodhana.

We all know that in Mahabharat, Duryodhana won the chess game and asked Yudhisthir to let Draupadi to sit on his left thigh. Because of this he is known as villain. But in those times, wife was given a place on left thigh or left side of a man and the right thigh or right side was kept for daughters.

Generally people know about six-sided dice. Amazing is that the dice through which Shakuni had defeated the Pandavas in the game of Checker had four sides. And of what that dice was made up of nobody knows.