A character in this poem plays the drum to mask the noise of a man being dismembered in a dance hall where he was planning to seduce a female servant. The protagonist of this poem preserves a forest fire by firing a canopy of arrows to prevent rain from extinguishing the flames. This poem contains a digression in which a wo
A character in this poem plays the drum to mask the noise of a man being dismembered in a dance hall where he was planning to seduce a female servant. The protagonist of this poem preserves a forest fire by firing a canopy of arrows to prevent rain from extinguishing the flames. This poem contains a digression in which a woman asks for a hundred sons to be born to her and her husband, in order to trick the god of death into restoring the life of that husband. In its shortest section, a man refuses to abandon a (*) dog that he met on a journey to a mountain where he will die and ascend to heaven. A woman in this poem is divinely granted lengths of cloth faster than her enemies force her to disrobe, during a dice game over which a man wagers his kingdom. Gazing at its reflection in a pool of oil, the protagonist of this text manages to shoot the eye of a moving fish, in an episode that ends with him and his four brothers all marrying Draupadi. For 10 points, name this epic poem about the battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas, including Arjuna.
A character in this poem plays the drum to mask the noise of a man being dismembered in a dance hall where he was planning to seduce a female servant.
Mahabharata