Mahabharata Episodes (English)
The following are the episodes in Mahabharata (English):
- Mahabharata is retold by Suta Pauranik in Shaunaka’s Satra
- Vaishampayana narrates Mahabharata to Janamejaya at the snake sacrifice
- Amshavatarana: The descent of Gods and demi-Gods on Earth
- Vamshavali: The Lineages
- Shantanu-Ganga-Bhishma-Satyavati
- Chitrangada-Vichitravirya
- The birth and marriages of Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura
- The birth and childhood of Kauravas and the Pandavas
- Kripa, Drona, the tournament and Guru-dakshina
- The burning of house of lac
- The killing of Hidimba
- The killing of Baka
- Draupadi’s Svayamvara and wedding
- The Pandavas obtain a share of their ancestral kingdom
- Arjuna goes on a twelve-year exile
- The burning of Khandava forest
- Building and inauguration of Maya Sabha in Indraprastha
- Yudhishthira contemplates Rajasuya Yaga; the killing of Jarasandha
- Pandava Digvijaya – Conquering the four quarters
- Rajasuya – the killing of Shishupala
- Duryodhana burns with jealousy and plots to organize a dice game with the Pandavas
- Dyuta – The dice game and disrobing of Draupadi
- The second game of dice; Pandavas are exiled
- The Pandavas set out on their exile
- Shaunaka’s discourse
- Yudhishthira obtains a magic vessel from Sun God
- Disagreement between Vidura and Dhritarashtra
- Vyasa’s advice to Dhritarashtra while Duryodhana plots to eliminate the Pandavas
- Maitreya curses Duryodhana
- The killing of Kirmira
- Friends visit the Pandavas in the Kamyaka forest
- The Pandavas move to Dvaitavana; Markandeya’s visit and Dalbhya’s discourse
- Conversation between Draupadi, Yudhishthira, and Bhimasena in Dvaitavana
- Kiratarjuneeya: Arjuna obtains divine weapons
- Arjuna goes to the world of Indra
- Dhritarashtra laments after hearing Arjuna obtaining divine weapons
- Rishi Brihadashva visits Yudhishthira in Kamyaka
- Yudhishthira’s pilgrimage
- Bhima fetches Saugandhika flowers for Draupadi, and meets his brother Hanuman
- The killing of Jatasura
- Bhima fights with the Yakshas and kills Kubera’s friend Maniman
- Arjuna kills Nivatakavachas and destroys Hiranyapuri
- Arjuna returns from the realm of Indra
- Yudhishthira releases Nahusha from the curse
- Krishna and Markandeya arrive at Kamyaka
- Conversation between Draupadi and Satyabhama
- Goshayatra: Duryodhana goes to tease the Pandavas
- Danavas assure the despondent Duryodhana
- Duryodhana’s Vaishnava Yagna
- The deer in Dvaitavana appear to Yudhishthira in his dreams
- The conversation between Vyasa and Yudhishthira
- Jayadratha abducts Draupadi
- Jayadratha is released
- Indra receives Karna’s Kavacha and Kundalas
- Yakshaprashna: Dharma tests Yudhishthira
- The Pandavas bid farewell to forest dwellers at the end of 12 years of exile
- The Pandavas live in disguise in Virata Nagar
- The killing of Kichaka
- Uttara Gograhana: The cattle seize - 1
- Uttara Gograhana: The cattle seize - 2
- Uttara Gograhana: The cattle seize - 3
- Abhimanyu weds Uttara
- The Pandavas and the Kauravas assemble armies
- The first emissary
- The second emissary – Sanjaya goes to the Pandavas
- Sanjaya reports back to the Kaurava assembly
- Krishna’s emissary – Part 1
- Krishna’s emissary – Part 2
- Krishna’s emissary – Part 3
- Krishna’s emissary – Part 4
- Preparations for the war
- The story of Amba
- The start of Mahabharata war
- The first day of war
- The second day of war
- The third day of war
- The fourth day of war
- The fifth day of war
- The sixth day of war
- The seventh day of war
- The eighth day of war
- The ninth day of war
- The tenth day of war: The Bhishma's fall
- Sanjaya reports Bhishma's fall to Dhritarashtra
- The eleventh day of war: Drona is anointed as Kuru general
- The twelfth day of war: The killing of Samshaptakas
- The thirteenth day of war – 1: The killing of Abhimanyu
- The thirteenth day of war – 2: Arjuna’s vow
- The fourteenth day of war – 1
- The fourteenth day of war – 2
- The fourteenth day of war – 3
- The fourteenth day of war – 4
- The fourteenth day of war – 5
- The fourteenth day of war – 6: The killing of Jayadratha
- The war in the night of fourteenth day – 1
- The war in the night of fourteenth day – 2
- The war in the night of fourteenth day – 3: The killing of Ghatotkacha
- The fifteenth day war – 1: The killing of Drupada and Virata
- The fifteenth day war – 2: The killing of Drona
- The fifteenth day war – 3: Ashvatthama releases the Narayanastra
- The end of fifteenth day war
- Shatarudriya
- Sanjaya reports the death of Drona to Dhritarashtra
- The sixteenth day war – 1: Karna as the Kuru general
- The sixteenth day war – 2
- The sixteenth day war – 3
- The seventeenth day war – 1: Shalya becomes the charioteer to Karna
- The seventeenth day war – 2: Shalya insults Karna
- The seventeenth day war – 3
- The seventeenth day war – 4
- The seventeenth day war – 5: Disagreements between Yudhishthira and Arjuna on account of Karna
- The seventeenth day war – 6: Krishna and Arjuna set out to kill Karna
- The seventeenth day war – 7: The killing of Duhshasana and Vrishasena
- The seventeenth day war – 8: The killing of Karna
- The seventeenth day war – 9: Sanjaya reports the killing of Karna to Dhritarashtra
- The eighteenth day war – 1: Shalya is the Kuru general
- The eighteenth day war – 2: The killing of Shalya
- The eighteenth day war – 3: Duryodhana retreats
- The eighteenth day war – 4: The killing of Duryodhana
- The eighteenth day war – 5: Ashvatthama is Kuru general
- The eighteenth day war – 6: Ashvatthama decides to kill the sleeping Pandava army
- The eighteenth day war – 7: Ashvatthama massacres the sleeping Pandavas in the night
- The eighteenth day war – 8: Duryodhana dies
- The Pandavas take revenge on Ashvatthama on the nineteenth day
- Sanjaya reports the killing of Duryodhana to Dhritarashtra on the nineteenth day
- Vidura and Vyasa console the grieving Dhritarashtra
- Dhritarashtra meets the Pandavas on the way to the battlefield
- Gandhari laments and curses Krishna
- Shraaddha and Jalatarpana
- Narada answers Yudhishthira’s questions about Karna
- Yudhishthira decides to abdicate the kingdom; the others convince him to rule the kingdom
- The anointment of Yudhishthira as the king
- Krishna takes Yudhishthira to Bhishma
- The conversations between Yudhishthira and Bhishma
- Bhishma ascends to heaven
- Yudhishthira is consoled; Ashvamedha is suggested
- Arjuna and Krishna relax at Indraprastha; Krishna returns to Dwaraka
- The Pandavas obtain wealth of Marutta and Parikshit is revived
- The Ashvamedha Yagna
- Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Kunti, Vidura and Sanjaya set out to the forest life
- Vyasa shows Duryodhana and the others who died in the war to Dhritarashtra
- Dhritarashtra and others die in a forest fire
- The destruction of Yadavas and end of Rama-Krishna Avatars
- The great journey
- Yudhishthira ascends to heaven