Mahabharata Audio Stories

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Narrated stories from the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit epic of ancient India. Each episode is a self-contained story from the epic, read aloud, with the full illustrated text available at https://agrily.co/stories.

  1. Aug 23

    A Royal Childhood at Hastinapura

    The five Pandava brothers and the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra grow up together in the palace under the wary eye of Vidura - until the arrival of the master Drona transforms a princely education into a forge of rivalries, vows, and the small, lethal injustices that will one day burn the world.

  2. Aug 23

    Adventures in the Forest

    Stripped of their kingdom by the dice game, the Pandavas wander the forests of the Bharatavarsha for twelve years. They kill demons, visit shrines, witness sages and gods, and Arjuna travels to Indra's heaven to gather the weapons that will one day decide the war.

  3. Aug 23

    Ancient Beginnings

    Before the war, before the kings, before the Kuru dynasty - the earth grew so heavy with the cruelty of her tyrants that she went to Brahma for relief. The gods agreed to incarnate as the heroes and villains of the age. A lineage of sages - Bhrigu, Pouloma, Uparichara Vasu - would seed the line that produced Vyasa and Satyavati. And one small unjust impalement of a sage would have its quiet revenge in a son of Dharma born into the household of a slave.

  4. Aug 23

    Arjuna's Vow and the Fall of Drona

    On the thirteenth day of the war, the boy Abhimanyu is killed inside a formation only Arjuna could break. Arjuna swears to kill the man who blocked Abhimanyu's rescue - Jayadratha - by sunset the next day. The fourteenth and fifteenth days hold the most desperate fighting of the war: a night battle in which Ghatotkacha consumes Karna's invincible spear; the Brahmastra-arrest of the sky by Drona; and the half-truth that finally lays the master of arms in the dust.

  5. Aug 23

    Arjuna's Wandering Year

    Having broken a rule of the brothers' shared marriage by interrupting one of Yudhishthira's private hours with Draupadi, Arjuna sentences himself to a year of pilgrimage. Along the road he meets three women who will become his wives - Ulupi the Naga princess who pulls him into her underwater palace, Chitrangada the warrior-queen of Manipura, and Subhadra of Dwaraka whom he carries off with Krishna's quiet help.

  6. Aug 23

    Astika Saves the Snakes

    King Janamejaya initiates a terrifying sacrifice to annihilate the entire snake race in revenge for his father's murder. As the snakes face total destruction, a young, brilliant sage named Astika arrives to fulfill an ancient prophecy and stop the massacre.

  7. Aug 23

    Bhishma on the Bed of Arrows

    Fallen but not yet dead, Bhishma lies on a bed of arrows for fifty-eight days waiting for the sun's northern turning. In those weeks the new king Yudhishthira sits at his grandsire's feet and receives the longest body of statecraft, dharma, and royal philosophy in the epic - the Shanti Parva and Anushasana Parva. When the auspicious hour arrives, Bhishma chooses his own death. And later, when Arjuna confesses to Krishna that he has forgotten the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna repeats it in his own way as the Anugita.

  8. Aug 23

    Bhishma's Vow

    Prince Devavrata renounces his claim to the throne and takes a vow of celibacy so that his father Shantanu can marry the fisherman's daughter Satyavati. This sacrifice earns him the name Bhishma--the one of the terrible vow.

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Narrated stories from the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit epic of ancient India. Each episode is a self-contained story from the epic, read aloud, with the full illustrated text available at https://agrily.co/stories.

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