Other scriptures suggest that it was supposed to be the most devastating of all celestial weapons and anyone who used it for wrong for subject to eternal pain and a decaying body and would become immortal to live that pain forever. You're right,except that it was not a bomb,it was a celestial/divine weapon/projectile called the Bramhastra or translated as The weapon of Bramha-The creator of the Universe. “Mahabharata"-which is accented on the third syllable, not the fourth-means “Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty.” By extension, it can be translated as “The Great History of the Human Race.” Peter Brook, the British director who staged a “Mahabharata” broadcast by PBS in 1989, said it would take more than a year to narrate the whole story. Such choices rarely turn out to be easy.Īmong the work’s many chapters is one of the most significant religious texts ever conceived-the “Bhagavad Gita” (The Song of the Lord), a discourse on reality and illusion, the discipline required to discern between the two and the indestructibility of the soul. The work explores the exorable but often obscure web of cause and effect (karma) and scrutinizes the complexity of making moral choices.
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It is full of wondrous and horrific stories, all directed toward examining the concept of Dharma, or the eternal way of righteousness and justice. Its cast of characters-gods, demigods, demons and humans-is immense.