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   Jeopardy Logo    "Welcome everyone, to Life or Death Jeopardy, I'm your host Dharma, and on today's show we have the five Pandava brothers. We'll be bringing in each brother one at a time and if they can answer all the riddles, they win a fantastic prize," Dharma said. Smiling, he turned to his assistant. "Could we have the first contestant please?" he asked her. She turned and walked away, and brought onstage the first brother, Nakula.       "Excellent," Dharma continued. "Now Nakula, in order to win the prize, you must answer the riddle, and answer correctly. If you do not, you will unfortunately perish. Are you ready?"       But Nakula didn't want to answer the riddle. He demanded the prize now. And so he died. Sahadeva came on stage after him, and refused to answer the riddle also.Arjuna came onstage after Sahadeva, and not only refused to answer the riddle, but attacked the host also. He fell over dead lik...

     The story that most caught my eye in this final portion of the Mahabarata was the story of the Night Raid. Duryodhana was dying on the battlefield and was visited by Ashwatthaman. Ashwatthaman was given permission to attack the Pandavas while they slept. So he went to do so. He came across the god Shiva, and since he had nothing else to offer Ashwatthaman threw his body into a fire. Shiva entered his body and decided to fulfill Ashwatthaman's desire. The Night Raid      Ashwatthaman slaughered all of the Draupadi's sons with a vengance. It was horrible. This is something that I would perhaps see in a show like Game of Thrones. Perhaps if I were to do a story on this, I would give it a Game of Thrones type setting.      Draupadi is grieving the loss of course, and she demands revenge be taken. They keep refusing her and refusing her. Finally, Draupadi says  that they should take the jewel of Ashwatthaman so that he will be...

     One of the stories that really caught my attention while reading this portion of the Mahabarata was Riddles at the Lake. This story starts off with them coming upon a stag that carried wood in it's antlers that the brahmins used for fires. The Pandava brothers were begged to get the wood for them, and eventually they agreed. So they chased the deer until they were exhausted and thirsty. So they looked for water.      The came across a pool of water that told the princes that they would be allowed to drink the water if they could answer a riddle. The first brother, Nakula, was impatient and drank from teh water and fell dead. So it went, brother after  brother falling dead because they were too impatient to answer the the riddle. Finally, Yudhishthira went to the water and saw his dead brothers. The pool once again asked for his riddles to be answered, and revealed himself to be a yaksha. Yudhishthira  answered each riddle, one by one, unt...