What Happened After The Mahabharata War?

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What Happened After The Mahabharata War Is Something You Weren't Taught In School
 
Mahabharata is a nearly perfect example of how to go about your life except, of course, the war. The war of Kurukshetra, is considered to be one of the bloodiest wars ever fought in human history. It was so monstrous that despite lasting for only eighteen days, it resulted in the death of almost 80 percent of the Indian male population, and its narrative forms more than a quarter of the book. What’s widely known is that the Pandavas won and the Kauravas lost. Ever imagined what happened after the Pandavas won? Who all survived? How long did the Pandavas rule Hastinapur? How did they finally die or were they actually murdered? And most importantly, what happened with Lord Krishna? Well, here are the (probable) answers.
1) After winning the war of Kurukshetra, Pandavas are crowned the rulers of Hastinapur with Yudhistira being at the helm of affairs. A grief-stricken Gandhari curses Krishna wishing for him and the whole Yadav clan a painfull death just like her sons (Kauravas).

2) Pandavas rule Hastinapur for 36 long years. Meanwhile, Gandhari’s curse to Lord Krishna starts taking shape. Witnessing ominous events in Dwarka, Krishna leads an exodus of the entire Yadav clan to Prabhasa. In Prabhasa, a murderous rebellion ensues amongst the clan, and the Yadavs end up killing each other to the extent of almost wiping out their entire race.

3) While trying to extinguish the rebellion, a hunter mistakenly shoots an arrow at the ‘mortal’ Lord Krishna, ultimately killing him. Thereafter, Krishna merges in the image of Vishnu and leaves his mortal human body. After the demise of Lord Krishna, Ved Vyasa tells Arjuna that the purpose of his and his brothers’ lives is over.

4) At about the same time, Dwapara Yuga is on the verge of ending, and Kali Yuga is about to start. Looking at the chaos and adharma creeping into his kingdom, Yudhistira crowns Parikshit as the king, and the Pandavas, along with Draupadi, decide to climb the Himalayas as a final penance to reach heaven. A stray dog (Lord Yama in disguise) joins them on their way to the top. 

5) As the pack climbs up, one by one, they start falling to their death. It starts with Draupadi, and Bheem is the last to fall to death. The reasons for their death are associated with their desires, issues, and troubles caused by their pride. Only Yudhistira, who didn’t take pride in anything, along with the dog, makes it to the gateway of heaven atop the Himalayas.

6) At the gateway of heaven, Lord Yama, disguised as the dog, reveals his identity and before letting Yudhistira enter heaven, takes him on a tour through the gallows of hell. In hell, Yudhistira witnesses his brothers and Draupadi redeeming their sins. Lord Indira, then, takes Yudhistira to heaven and promises him that his brothers and Draupadi will be there. 

This is how Lord Krishna and the Pandavas, the most important characters of Mahabharata, left the mortal world. After this, began the Kali Yuga, which is the world as we know today.

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[chandra916]

Intiki vellipoyi vuntaaru andharu after war

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Intiki vellipoyi vuntaaru andharu after war

kaalu chetulu kadukonni... 2 beerlu kotti padukoni untaru ;)

[andhrapradesh@123]

kaalu chetulu kadukonni... 2 beerlu kotti padukoni untaru ;)

+ Biryani kooda.

[cheptanu]

aakathai neeko prashna

vanaprastashramam anagane oka sandehamu kaliginadi maku

prastutam konni generations nundi gruhastashramam varake jeevanam sagistunnaru..why hindu people left vanaprastashramam?

chalamatuku kutumbhallo pillalu pellillu chesi 20 years gadustunna, chachevaruku pettanam cheyalankuntaru, chestunnaru kuda..why these elders not following our customs and traditions?

In laws problem lekkundi neeku

[shivakumar577]

Gp

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aakathai neeko prashna

 

vanaprastashramam anagane oka sandehamu kaliginadi maku

 

prastutam konni generations nundi gruhastashramam varake  jeevanam sagistunnaru..why hindu people left vanaprastashramam?

 

chalamatuku kutumbhallo pillalu pellillu chesi 20 years gadustunna, chachevaruku pettanam cheyalankuntaru, chestunnaru kuda..why these elders not following our customs and traditions?

ippati pillalu emana appati laga unnara? peddalu ala undataniki. 

[underperformer]

 

Aswathamma killed all the upapandavas (children of pandava brothers   with Draupadi), shikandi and dhristadhyumna and several others in the   18th day night of the war. When confronted by the pandavas, He launched  a Brahmashira to kill Uttara's womb (only to be saved by Krishna and to  be named by him as Parikshit). Krishna cursed him to be an immortal,  who will be filled with excrutiating pain because of injuries, with  blood and pus oozing out of his injuries, who will find ways to kill  himself to relieve the pain but cannot do so, who will lose contact with  humans, after removing the gem on his forehead.

Pandavas got the  blessings of Kunti, Vidura, Dhritarastra and Gandhari and ruled both  Hastinapur and Indraprasta reigns together. Dhritarastra tried to kill  Bheema while offering blessings, but after demolishing an Iron Statue,  mistaking it to be Bheema, he regained his senses and blessed the  pandavas. Yuyutsa became the guardian for Indraprasta and took charge of  it till Karna's 9th and last son (the only son of Karna who remained  alive) achieves sufficient age to takeover the reign as the King.

Pandavas  ruled the Kingdom for 36 long years. They conducted several Rajasurya  Yagas and Aswamedha Yagas and Yudhistira became a grand emperor  (Chakravarty) for the entire nation. They took care of Kunti, Vidura,  Dhritarastra and Gandhari with great care. 15 years from the beginning  of the reign, these 4 decided to go to the forests on a voluntary exile  (The location is somewhere in the present day Uttrakand). There, Vidura  receives a peaceful death and passes away. The remaining three died in a  forest fire.

In the 37th year of the Pandava rule, The yadavas had a  great rebellion and fight and they nearly wiped themselves out. Krishna  and Balaram also left the world after retreating to the forests and the  city of Dwaraka was submerged into the sea.

By that time, Parikshit (Grand son  of Arjuna and Subathra, son of Abhimanyu and Uttara) was crowned as the  king of Kuru dynasty as none of the Upapandavas (sons of Pandava  brothers with Panchali) or the other sons of Pandavas survived the war,  the Dwapara Yuga was on the verge of ending and Kali Yuga was about to  start. And also, chaos and adharma slowly started creeping into King  Parikshit's reign.

Pandavas and Panchali (or Draupadi) decided to  climb the Himalayas as a final penance/yatra (sort of) to reach heaven.  They climbed the Himalayas and were accompanied by a dog (Lord Yama in  disguise). As they climbed/walked their way to the top, one by one they  started falling and dying, and ending up in hell. Apparently, the reason  for their deaths is because of their desires, issues and troubles  caused by them and their own pride. Panchali falls first possibly  because of her pride and she favoured Arjuna more among her pandava  husbands. (she had a soft corner for him.). Sahadev and Nakul fall next  possibly because they were prideful about their looks, Arjuna dies next  because he was prideful about his archery skills. Bheem dies last,  because many a times, during the forest exiles of the Pandavas, he was  inconsiderate about food. He used to eat a lot without leaving anything  for others, thereby starving them. So they used to share the food among  themselves before letting him to eat. Yudhistir, who did not take pride  in anything (except for his pride on following righteousness) nor was  biased to anyone and the dog finally reached the top of the himalayas.  The dog revealed it's true Identity to be Lord Yama. Lord Yama takes him  to hell first and makes him stay there for 1 day (or 1 minute or 1 second, several sources say differently), stating that a steady  headed dharmaraj such as Yudhistir should also have the experience of  knowing what is hell like. Yudhistir was later taken to heaven and was  promised that Panchali and his brothers will join him shortly as they  they get the experience (of punishment) of hell.

On Earth,  Parikshit was ruling his empire in a noble way and a son named  Janemejaya was born to him. He crowned him the Crown Prince of Kuru  Dynasty. Once Parikshit was adventuring into a forest, he met a Demon  named Kali. This demon requested him to grant permission to enter  kingdom and later the world. He also added that Kali Yuga should start  as per the laws of nature and in this yuga, righteousness and noble  qualities will degrade and the world will be thrown into imbalance. King  Parikshit refused and said that as long as he lived, he will not allow  Kali to occupy this kingdom and this world. Since Parikshit was as  mighty as Pandavas (May be more than them, it depends on sources) Demon  Kali requested for a negotiation. After a long negotiation, Kali got the  permission to reside in 5 places in the world. (Places where (Not in  order) 1. Prostitution happens, 2. Animals are slaughtered, 3. People  gamble with wealth and property, 4. People consume Alcohol and other  drinks, 5. Where Gold exists. On some sense, these 5 are great sources  of evil even today). By his permission to reside in places where gold  exists, Kali went to reside in the crown of Parikshit and started to  control and corrupt Parikshit's head. Under the influence of Kali, he in  his mentally deranged condition, took a dead snake, made it similar to a  garland and put it on the neck of a Rishi named Shamika and  went away. The Rishi was insulted, and on seeing this act, the Rishi's  son Shringi (who, apparently cannot control his anger) gave a curse to  Parikshit that he will die by a serpent bite within 7 (in some sources  10) days. But the Rishi was sad and surprised because of two things. The imbalance of the punishment and power. (As per the Rishi's opinion, this is not a great sin that can be punished with death curse).  Second, Laws of judgement/punishment/dhar

ma is failing.

The  implicit message is that people have started to get very great powers  and are capable of misusing them very easily. Moral values will fade and  materialistic things will gain more importance than the righteous  things. Parikshit became normal after this incident, realised that he will die and listened to the Bhagavata Purana from sage(s) for the next 7 to 10 days till death. As per the curse, Parkishit was bitten by a snake and died.  (Some sources say that this snake was actually the serpent king Takshak,  who sworn to kill Arjuna or his lineage because he captured  Khandivaprastha by burning down the magical forest occupied by the  snakes. Later the Pandavas with the aid of Lord Krishna and Lord Indra  transformed Khandivaprastha into the grand city Indraprastha ( present  day New Delhi or atleast close to it.) which was supposed to be more  glorious and economically prosperous than Hastinapur.) And as soon as  Parikshit died, Kali Yuga prevailed in full dominance. Parikshit was so  mighty that he was able to delay the onset of Kali Yuga for 7 to 10  days. The angry crown prince Janamejaya, now became the king and ordered  to start a grand yaga to kill all the snakes in the world. While the  yaga was in progress, his fellow court people advised him that it was a  grave decision and pleaded him to stop the yaga. The yaga was stopped  and they all explained to him about the entire lineage of Kuru Dynasty,  right from the Lunar Dynasty's founder, following down to King Bharat  (Who united our country and gave the name "Bharata"), King Hastin (Who  founded the Hastinapur City), King Kuru, (Who officially formed the  alternate name, Kuru Dynasty) and proceeding down to King Shantanu and  all the way till present day events of Mahabharat. Janamejaya forgave  and continued his reign in the foot steps of his ancestors. In due  course of time, the entire Kingdom of Kuru was becoming rebellious and  restless with chaos and adharma. King Janamejaya did his best to restore  dharma. Possibly because of Draupati's curse in Hastinapur court when  she was disrobed (only to be saved by Lord Krishna) or because of some  other reason, the Hastinapur city was hit with a massive flood and sunk  into the ground. The capital was shifted to some city (name not sure)  some where south of it. In a situation of great political and economical  unrest, King Janamejaya was forced to wage a war against some enemy invasion (or an internal civil war/rebellion etc.,). At the end of the war, he was dethroned by the enemy king and  possibly killed. Janamejaya had no progeny and hence the Kuru dynasty  ended. After Janamejaya died, the very last survivor who has some power  to stop Kali is gone.

On a parallel note, after Kurukshetra war,  the Yadavas, who did not take part in the war became more and more  "adharmic" and nearly 36 years after the war, some of the Yadavas after  getting drunk, started a fight among each other due to differences of  opinion or mutual hate (It's a complicated set of reason, but as far as  my understanding goes, it happens more or less immediately when  Parikshit was corrupted by Kali). This fight became a serious one and in  the process, all of Lord Krishna's sons including the noble Pradyuman  and several other powerful Yadavas met with their doom, to such a point  that the Yadava clan almost got wiped out. (Some sources say that the  clan and Yadavas died completely and some say that there were a few  survivors who suffered a lot and existed in Kali Yuga.) Lord Krishna and  Lord Balaram did not prevent this uprising. Both of them fled to the  forests and started meditating to calm themselves. While doing so, a  hunter, who was hiding in a bush, mistakenly pierces Krishna with an  arrow, thinking him to be a deer. Later the hunter (Who was King Baali,  Bother of King Sugreev of Ramayana time in his previous birth) begged  for forgiveness. Krishna said that this was not his fault and dies.  Later Balram also dies. (Not sure how, but apparently immediately when  Krishna died.) This was because of Queen Gandhari's curse.

At the  ending of Kurukshetra war, possibly, on the 16th or 17th day evening of  the war, Queen Gandhari came to the battle field and was extremely sad  and devastated to have her 99 sons (except Duryodhan) killed by Bheem.  When Lord Krishna went to offer his condolences, Gandhari in fury asked  Lord Krishna why he did not end the war in a moment's notice though he  has the power, and let it proceed. It was King Dhritarastra's  fate to  be born blind and having his 100 sons killed in this life time (There is  a story behind this regarding a tyrant king, a swan and it's 100  cygnets.)  But Gandhari did nothing in her past lives nor in her current  life to receive such brutal suffering. Gandhari, in her desperation and  rage, gave a notorious curse to Lord Krishna: To feel the pain she is  facing of having her sons being killed, Krishna will see the entire of  his Yadava clan,  die infront of his eyes and his kingdom will burn to  the ashes. He and his brother will be left with no lineage to rule. All  of Krishna's sons will die in a massive fight that will happen in  Dwaraka. Krishna on the other hand will have no power to stop this war  and will flee to the forest without any weapons. There in the forest,  unarmed, he will be killed by a hunter and later, the entire city of  Dwaraka will sink into the sea. The remaining Yadavas, who survive the  war will be suffering a lot because of chaos and facing all the above  misery. Lord Krishna, though he had the power to nullify the curse,  wholeheartedly accepted the curse.

With Lord Krishna dead and  with no saviour to save the world from evil, Adharma will flourish in  the Kali Yuga. As per the Hindu mythology, we are living in Kali Yuga.  Since this is the last yuga in the current cycle of the cosmos/life  decided by Brahma, to cleanse the world of evil and to end Kali Yuga,  Lord Vishnu said that he will take the 10th avatar namely Kalki Avatar  when adharma reaches the pinnacle and end the world to start a new and  fresh cycle of life. Lord Parashuram, one of the 7 immortals  (chiranjeevi) of the Hindu mythology will be the guru for Kalki Avatar.

 

Thanks baa :)

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What Happened After The Mahabharata War Is Something You Weren't Taught In School

 

Mahabharata is a nearly perfect example of how to go about your life except, of course, the war. The war of Kurukshetra, is considered to be one of the bloodiest wars ever fought in human history. It was so monstrous that despite lasting for only eighteen days, it resulted in the death of almost 80 percent of the Indian male population, and its narrative forms more than a quarter of the book. What’s widely known is that the Pandavas won and the Kauravas lost. Ever imagined what happened after the Pandavas won? Who all survived? How long did the Pandavas rule Hastinapur? How did they finally die or were they actually murdered? And most importantly, what happened with Lord Krishna? Well, here are the (probable) answers.

1) After winning the war of Kurukshetra, Pandavas are crowned the rulers of Hastinapur with Yudhistira being at the helm of affairs. A grief-stricken Gandhari curses Krishna wishing for him and the whole Yadav clan a painfull death just like her sons (Kauravas).

2) Pandavas rule Hastinapur for 36 long years. Meanwhile, Gandhari’s curse to Lord Krishna starts taking shape. Witnessing ominous events in Dwarka, Krishna leads an exodus of the entire Yadav clan to Prabhasa. In Prabhasa, a murderous rebellion ensues amongst the clan, and the Yadavs end up killing each other to the extent of almost wiping out their entire race.

3) While trying to extinguish the rebellion, a hunter mistakenly shoots an arrow at the ‘mortal’ Lord Krishna, ultimately killing him. Thereafter, Krishna merges in the image of Vishnu and leaves his mortal human body. After the demise of Lord Krishna, Ved Vyasa tells Arjuna that the purpose of his and his brothers’ lives is over.

4) At about the same time, Dwapara Yuga is on the verge of ending, and Kali Yuga is about to start. Looking at the chaos and adharma creeping into his kingdom, Yudhistira crowns Parikshit as the king, and the Pandavas, along with Draupadi, decide to climb the Himalayas as a final penance to reach heaven. A stray dog (Lord Yama in disguise) joins them on their way to the top. 

5) As the pack climbs up, one by one, they start falling to their death. It starts with Draupadi, and Bheem is the last to fall to death. The reasons for their death are associated with their desires, issues, and troubles caused by their pride. Only Yudhistira, who didn’t take pride in anything, along with the dog, makes it to the gateway of heaven atop the Himalayas.

6) At the gateway of heaven, Lord Yama, disguised as the dog, reveals his identity and before letting Yudhistira enter heaven, takes him on a tour through the gallows of hell. In hell, Yudhistira witnesses his brothers and Draupadi redeeming their sins. Lord Indira, then, takes Yudhistira to heaven and promises him that his brothers and Draupadi will be there. 

This is how Lord Krishna and the Pandavas, the most important characters of Mahabharata, left the mortal world. After this, began the Kali Yuga, which is the world as we know today.

very gud post :)