Mahabharata Podcast

Episode 100  - I've put together my review of the epic, in its totality.  I discuss the strange way in which the epic goes into fine de...

There are 18 books to the Mahabharat.  You can see my source books lined up in back, with the Kindle to finish it off.  Coincidentally, I fi...

Episode 99  - This is the final piece that brings us around, back to the beginning.  We covered some of this territory before, back in Epis...

Episode 98  - This is the first of two episodes that take us from the death of the Pandavas down to the Snake Sacrifice, held by Arjun'...

Episode 97 - So this is it-- the final installment from the Mahabharata.  Book 18, the Svargarohanika Parva, is done, and the 18 parvas of...

Episode 96 - Arjun returns home with some bad news and some good news.  The bad news is that they have lost their powers and have lost the...

Episode 95 - Krishna is dead.  Balaram is dead.  The city of Dwarka sinks beneath the waves, and the refugees of that once-great city are ...

Episode 94 - The Dark Age is now unquestionably upon us.  The elder Kurus, living austere lives in the forest, found themselves consumed b...

Episode 93 - The white horse returns home, only to be tied to a post, killed, & cut up into little pieces.  The priests do their best ...

Episode 92 - This is another eventful episode.  Krishna & Arjun take a break and go on a leisure trip to Indraprastha, where it appear...

Episode 91  - We get treated to a last handful of the Final Teachings, and then Bhisma dies.  The poor guy set quite an objective for himse...

Episode 90  - A few more stories from Bhisma's final teachings.  We learn that Vyasa had a son, named Suka, who really did not seem to ...

Episode 89 - For some reason, the first three full-fledged stories from the Anusasana Parva all center around a Banian tree.  They also sh...

I've finally managed to read through the entire Anusasana Parva, and I've started working on the next episode. This took some seri...

Episode 88  - This episode begins the voluminous Last Teachings of Bhisma.  As Bhisma lies on his bed of arrows, the Pandavas, Krishna ...