Week 13 Reading Diary B

-Female warriors are not allowed, this is why gender switching happens
-Sikhandini becomes a man so she can become a warrior.
-Yudhishthira meets with enemy before battle.
-Bhisma lives with a body full of arrows.
-Pandavas seem to be winning the battle.

Week 13 Reading Diary A

William Buck, The Mahabharata pg 191-246
-Begins with Pandavas getting water from the lake.
-However, the lake kills them.
-Pandavas spend years in exile in the Matsya kingdom.
-Yudhishthira enters service as brahmin.
-Story or Karna and Indra.
-Kickaka, general of Virata, longs for Drapaudi.
-Karna wants to fight with the Pandavas