Reading Diary B: Mahabharata (PDE)

PDE Mahabharata

(Water Fairy or Water Nympth)

Part B:
21. The House of Fire

• Twins
• A beautiful palace, soaked in oil, and made of wood. The fiery plot! But, they manage to escape.

22. Bhima and Hidimba

• Living in wilderness (Nice setting for a story. Maybe a character who is trying to live off of the land, or lives with wind animals. Idea: a character raised by wolves, or maybe raised by WERE-wolves. Setting: a wild forest)
• Hidimba the Rakshasa. Long sharp pointed teeth. Eats humans, flesh and blood.
• Rakshasa woman who fell in love with a human. Instead of killing him for her brother, she assumed the shape of a beautiful woman. Clad in flowers and such.
• "Eyes like lotus blossoms"

23. Bhima and Hidimbi

• A Rakshasa son. Rakshasa are born full-grown (I feel bad for the mother...)
• "O celestial being..."

24. Bhima and Baka

• Weapon: a mace.
• Asuras are akin to Rakshasa but are good or bad. They can be benevolent (unlike Rakshasa.)

25. Brith of Draupadi

• Disguises and mistaken identity! Always a nice plot device.
• Supernatural birth.

26. Draupadi's Swayamara

• Swayamara, a tournament of sorts where a woman's husband is selected.
• A magical bow. (Takes me back to the Ramayana)

27. Wife of the Five Pandavas

• A woman with five husbands. (Or a girl with five boyfriends. What if in the story five guys like one girl, and she can't decide which guy she likes. At the end she chooses one, or she chooses none.)
• Alternatively: what if a girl is dating a guy who has five personalities (due to a split personality disorder.) So she is essentially dating five guys, even though they are all technically the same guy.)

28. The Story of Nalayani

• Karma

29. Indraprastha

• Forest robbers (trying in with an above story, the setting is a wild forest, an a girl is a forest robber. Possibly a Robin Hood sort of theme) 

30. Arjuna and Ulupi

• Setting: the jungle 

31. Arjuna and the Asparas

• Fairies! A story with fairies. 
• Water nymphs. 
• A story containing fairies, water fairies, or water nymphs.
• Something that allows one to never be killed by something in the water.
• Fighting an alligator, who becomes a lovely girl.

32. Arjuna and Chitra

• Kama, the Goddess of Love.

33. Arjuna and Subhadra

• Maya, the Goddess of Illusions. 

34. The Burning of the Forest

35. Maya's Palace

• Palace of Illusions
• Heavenly palaces
• Mistaking crystal for water and for a doorway. The King as a fool. 

36. The Pandavas Victorious

• A Rajasuya sacrifice. 

37. The Gambling Match

• Warriors must accept a gambling match.
• Loaded dice. Should be punished by the Gods or something for cheating.

38. Draupadi Lost

• FATE. Story themes or morals: You cannot escape fate. 
• Serving as a slave in a castle. 

39. Draupadi in the Assembly Hall

• Princess 
• Flames of wrath

40. The Second Match

• Just when you think someone's safe...they're not! 
• Bad omens: jackal's howl and donkeys and raves reply. 
• Dark omens
• Blind person 
• "Noble Queen", "virtuous daughter"